Comments on: Getting Used to the Frugal Life http://thefamilywallet.com/2008/08/getting-used-to-the-frugal-life.html Money Tips For Your Family Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:19:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Festival of Frugality 138 – The First Principals | Personal Finance Blog by Money Ning http://thefamilywallet.com/2008/08/getting-used-to-the-frugal-life.html/comment-page-1#comment-120 Festival of Frugality 138 – The First Principals | Personal Finance Blog by Money Ning Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:34:00 +0000 http://thefamilywallet.com/?p=56#comment-120 [...] DJ presents Getting Used to the Frugal Life [...] [...] DJ presents Getting Used to the Frugal Life [...]

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]]> By: Leah Ingram http://thefamilywallet.com/2008/08/getting-used-to-the-frugal-life.html/comment-page-1#comment-101 Leah Ingram Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:35:12 +0000 http://thefamilywallet.com/?p=56#comment-101 When I was getting my blog The Lean Green Family (formerly Suddenly Frugal) off the ground last year, along with our newly frugal lifestyle, one of the first, small changes that I made was deciding NOT to buy books anymore. It wasn't that I wasn't going to read--I'm a writer, for Pete's sake. Words are my living. It's just that I was going to start using a reader's best free resource--the public library. In flush years I'd simply gotten out of the habit of borrowing books from the library, because it was "easier" to just buy them. Once, though, I added up how many hundreds of dollars I was spending on books each year, and my library card became my new best friend. Here's a post about our new frugal behavior when it comes to the library: http://suddenlyfrugal.blogspot.com/2007/06/library-fines-and-lessons-learned.html When I was getting my blog The Lean Green Family (formerly Suddenly Frugal) off the ground last year, along with our newly frugal lifestyle, one of the first, small changes that I made was deciding NOT to buy books anymore. It wasn’t that I wasn’t going to read–I’m a writer, for Pete’s sake. Words are my living. It’s just that I was going to start using a reader’s best free resource–the public library. In flush years I’d simply gotten out of the habit of borrowing books from the library, because it was “easier” to just buy them. Once, though, I added up how many hundreds of dollars I was spending on books each year, and my library card became my new best friend.

Here’s a post about our new frugal behavior when it comes to the library:

http://suddenlyfrugal.blogspot.com/2007/06/library-fines-and-lessons-learned.html

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