Just curious who else is living super frugal

[Arielle]

Clever!!
THough the frugal in me would use the string from a bag of grain to make a bow tie that I ould pull off and reuse the stocking!!

 

[LindaB220]

Clever!!
THough the frugal in me would use the string from a bag of grain to make a bow tie that I ould pull off and reuse the stocking!!

And you'll hear, "Nice to see you Arielle, what is that smell? Almost like onions."

 

[Arielle]

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[lazy gardener]

Frugal: turning bugs into eggs. I've turned the back yard into a moon scape again this summer. Dug up all of the ant nests. The girls are stuffed full of ants, pupae, eggs, and pre-emergent queens. Hubby just shakes his head... One minute, he says, "That frustrates me! (Other men would be having quite the rant with choice 4 letter words right about now!!!) The next minute, he's looking down over the deck rail, looking at all the ant life that is being turned up with every shovelful, and commenting about what a good job the girls are doing.

 

[PlaidBattleAxe]

Frugal: turning bugs into eggs. I've turned the back yard into a moon scape again this summer. Dug up all of the ant nests. The girls are stuffed full of ants, pupae, eggs, and pre-emergent queens. Hubby just shakes his head... One minute, he says, "That frustrates me! (Other men would be having quite the rant with choice 4 letter words right about now!!!) The next minute, he's looking down over the deck rail, looking at all the ant life that is being turned up with every shovelful, and commenting about what a good job the girls are doing.

Awesome. I'm waiting to turn mine lose into my garden after the harvest-----they can get those dang flea beetles and earwigs for me.
I think I'm going to use that "bugs into eggs" in a school analogy for my kids..they'll love it!

 

[PlaidBattleAxe]

I was going to post today, but had held off----I cooked woodchuck again.

DH got 3 the other day and we put them in the crockpot for 36 hours and added rice, and now I've got killer organic dog food!!

 

[Arielle]

Frugal: turning bugs into eggs. I've turned the back yard into a moon scape again this summer. Dug up all of the ant nests. The girls are stuffed full of ants, pupae, eggs, and pre-emergent queens. Hubby just shakes his head... One minute, he says, "That frustrates me! (Other men would be having quite the rant with choice 4 letter words right about now!!!) The next minute, he's looking down over the deck rail, looking at all the ant life that is being turned up with every shovelful, and commenting about what a good job the girls are doing.

Ahhh, the effects of living frugal!!!!

 

[lazy gardener]

I was going to post today, but had held off----I cooked woodchuck again.

DH got 3 the other day and we put them in the crockpot for 36 hours and added rice, and now I've got killer organic dog food!!

Did you skin them first??? Of course you did... what am I thinking??? How bad did they smell???

 

[Arielle]

I have been researching how to make lye for soap making-- and found this as a promising resource-- anyone make their own lye and have a sucessful method??

I will need to wait until our wood stove is fired up; no point in wasting good wood just to make lye. THat would NOT be frugal.

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Lye

 

[cassie]

In my opinion, making lye is one of the things that come under the heading of just because you can do something it doesn't mean you should. Lye is cheap.