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Five Frugal Things | plus a $15 offer from Top Cashback

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marked down soup

This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. 1. I bought marked-down soup. Sonia and Zoe sometimes like to heat up cans of soup at lunchtime, and I happened to find a can of chicken noodle and a can of tomato […]

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One tip to avoid food waste: Eat things that don’t go together

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One of my readers left a comment recently saying that my menu posts had inspired her to not worry so much about making meals where everything “went together”. I can definitely see why she said that, because as long as my meals are checking off the basic food categories, I don’t worry about coordinating the […]

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WIS, WWA| Name-brand crackers are better. The end.

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homemade clam chowder recipe

What I Spent Incidentally, on Instagram and Facebook this week, we chatted about off-brand crackers. My thought is that there are almost no good generic crackers, and most of you felt the same way as me. Some things are worth paying more for. I spent $134 at the grocery store this week, so, yay me! […]

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Five Frugal Things | $5 coats, two mending jobs + more!

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clearance pea coat

This post contains affiliate links, which earn money for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. 1. I mended a camp chair bag. When we packed for camping last weekend, we discovered that one of our camp chair bags had a big hole in the side. So, when we […]

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Would you rather be good at earning or good at saving?

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Obviously, we’d all choose to be good at both. But if you HAD to choose between one or the other, which would you pick? This will probably come as no surprise, but I think I’d rather be good at saving. Why? If you aren’t good at saving, you can never earn enough. As I was […]

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