October 2011

Festival of Frugality

October 11, 2011

This week’s Festival will have to be minimalist, given the workload in these parts. Despite having to do this project under a bit of time pressure, I very much enjoyed reading each post presented here, and I hope you will, too! ♥ Editor’s Picks ♥ Suba Wealth Informatics Should You Buy or Rent? Whoa! This [...]

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Is This Ever Gonna STOP?

October 9, 2011

Man! In the overworked and underpaid department, I seem to be having a fire sale. Don’t know when I’ve ever worked so hard and earned so little for so much effort. I thought I’d finished reading stoont papers late last night, clearing the way to work on the Festival of Frugality today, which is absorbing [...]

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Second-Hand Rose: A Thrift Shop Score

October 7, 2011

I’m wearing second-hand hats, Second-hand clothes, That’s why they call me Second-hand Rose… In the fading upscale shopping center across the street from the restaurant where my business group meets for breakfast each Thursday morning, you’ll find a wildly successful thrift shop called My Sister’s Closet. Yesterday I decided to drop in and see if [...]

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New Love Drop!

October 6, 2011

Here’s this month’s message from Love Drop. As you’ll recall, the group selects one worthy family at a time and blogs together to raise donations in kind and cash. Check it out! Hey guys! The Love Drop team is at it again! They just came back from the Boston area where they dropped $5,000 worth [...]

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Condo Gardening

October 4, 2011

Yesterday’s Declaration of Independence from Vegetable Gardening elicited some interesting responses from readers who have come to suspect the gardening bug is a disease, not an inspiration.  Two commenters, Carol and SherryH, describe their responses to the challenges of trying to maintain ornamental or vegetable container gardens in apartment-house conditions. Boy, can I sympathize with [...]

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Fall has sprung! Time to garden

October 3, 2011

Even though temps are still in the low 100s and the pool is still swimmable, it looks like the worst of the heat is over. In Arizona’s low desert, this means spring is here. Again. Yay! At last plants will start to grow again! We had the hottest, driest August on record, and several days [...]

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