From the category archives:

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  • Switch to buying all organic meat, dairy, and produce (except for the clean fifteen).
  • Switch from regular white flour to white whole wheat (taking one step in the whole wheat direction at a time).
  • Come in under budget each and every month in 2010. Utilize extra roll over cash from prior months to pay larger purchases.
  • Add one new piece of quality furniture that will last a lifetime to my home (I’m thinking a pair of nightstands – yeah that counts as one piece – or a big comfy chair to create a perfect reading nook).
  • Don’t let cardboard boxes pile up in the garage. Cut them down and put them out with the recycling on a weekly basis.
  • Take a nice relaxing and fun vacation with my best friend after she graduates law school and passes the bar and I am cancer free (hopefully both of those will happen this summer).

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Welcome to the August 11, 2009 edition of the Festival of Frugality. This week we have a wonderful assortment of tips on how to be more frugal in a variety of areas of your life.

Editor’s Pick

Modern Gal presents Do Certain Personality Types Save More? posted at Modern Gal. This is kind of crazy because I apparently perfectly fit the stereotype for people who have success in shifting to a simpler, more sustainable life-style. Do you fit?

Budgeting

Cleaning

Cooking

Couponing

Crafting

Going Green

Investing

Meal Planning

Shopping

Traveling

Next Issue

You can submit your article for next week’s carnival at the Festival of Frugality blog carnival page.

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First and foremost, make sure to check out my guest post at Devastate Boredom about Why I Bought an Apple TV Rather than a Cable Subscription.

Then you can proceed to the regular wrap up. To get daily updates on this check the sidebar at www.itsfrugalbeinggreen.com. Those daily updates also include links to my favorite great deals and printable coupons I spot on other blogs, these wrap ups only summarize the “timeless” posts that particularly strike me.

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Au revoir!

July 23, 2009

I’ll be on vacation for a few days here so I won’t be posting a meal plan this Sunday. I won’t be taking my laptop with me on this trip because I don’t expect to have internet access at the campground I’ll be at but I will have my iPhone with me and will be [...]

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The Best of It’s Frugal Being Green: June 2009

June 30, 2009

June marks another exciting month here at It’s Frugal Being Green. If you’re an RSS or email subscriber, I hope you’ve stopped by the website this month to check out the new graphics. In addition to these new graphics, I have prepared a complete arsenal of standard sized web banners and buttons. The Grab My [...]

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When to Use Frequent Flier Miles

June 18, 2009

Later this summer, I’ll be taking some vacation time from work to go on a week long trip to the Midwest to visit some relatives and attend a nearby airshow.
I always start my airline ticket hunt at sites the aggregate ticket prices from various airlines like Travelocity, Kayak.com, or Orbitz. You can usually buy the [...]

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Everyday Food, Cooking Light, and Sunset Magazine Reviews

May 9, 2009

Mother’s Day is tomorrow. If you still need to get your mom a gift, a magazine subscription is a great last minute idea. Here are some magazines that I currently subscribe to that are not fashion/buy more stuff focused.

Everyday Food has become my absolute favorite magazine. I started with this magazine because I found the [...]

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