This post is for our friends in Australia. Do you know how the price of your energy compares to the price of your neighbours’? Different energy retailers have different agreements with energy distributors, which means that the cost of energy in your area can vary from one retailer to another. As a consumer, you have [...]
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Most people associate recycling for money with picking up stray cans out of trash receptacles. The very idea seems a bit uncouth, and regardless of your financial situation, you may not feel so hot about losing whatever is left of your dignity. However, there are other less severe ways to recycle goods to earn money [...]
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At the forefront of popular food movements is the desire to eat products that are locally sourced and sustainably raised. What seems like an obvious choice, eating food that is raised nearby and is in season to avoid the environmental calamity that comes with shipping produce from the other side of the world, also seems [...]
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Trying to find ways to cut back and live a greener life? You may already be reducing your purchases and recycling your glass, plastic and paper products. But you may not have realized that you have a number of items already in your home that can be repurposed for other uses — saving you money [...]
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The nutritional value of the fruits and vegetables that we buy in the grocery store is diminishing. In 2004, Donald Davis, PhD, a former researcher with the Biochemical Institute at the University of Texas, Austin, led a team that analyzed 43 fruits and vegetables from 1950 to 1999 and reported reductions in vitamins, minerals, and [...]
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Congratulations Daniel of Sweating The Big Stuff! You won the PUR Water Filtration System! Thanks to everyone who entered!
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If you could make a small change that would save you money, help the environment and possibly protect your health, would you do it? This is the decision I made three years ago when I decided to kick our bottled water habit and install a water filtration system. Three years ago: We consumed an average [...]
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It seems like everyday we hear of another food recall or a study is released telling us some artificial ingredient in our food has been found to cause cancer. The state of our food production system is appalling. Large agricultural companies continue to implement measures that drive up their profits and drive down the nutritional [...]
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Over the past few years I’ve significantly cut back on the amount of beef my family eats. I subscribed to the belief that beef was bad for you. But what I’ve learned over the past few months while researching the healthiest foods you can eat, the health factor of beef is less about beef itself [...]
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*Note – this is not a sponsored post. I’m just a frugal nerd that gets excited about this stuff. I’ve always thought it weird that in this day and age, the utility company has to send someone out once a month to read our meter. Don’t we have technology to do this? Apparently we do. [...]
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Hi, I’m Cathy! I’m a former career-driven professional turned stay-at-home mom. Living on one salary has its challenges, but it is possible to live the good life while spending less. Cool to be Frugal is all about how we’re thriving, not just surviving, on a single income.
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