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As mentioned on another thread, today I found a source for my chicken feed that costs 15% less than at the other place, for the same feed.

As far as the "keeping up with the Joneses" issue, I think I "win". My husband is an only child and his parents are upper middle-class, with pretensions of being upper-upper class. When they retired, they sold their lovely 1800sf home in a beautiful part of the country, and moved to a FOUR...

At home, I schedule demos. You know those folks you see at the grocers and the discount department stores, handing out samples and tastes of new products? I make the calls to the demonstrators to arrange the staffing. This is a steady job that pays okay for the hours it takes. Also at home...

Freemotion, your post answers a lot of questions I've had about making my own cat food! Somehow over the years we have acquired a dozen indoor cats and I am going bonkers trying to stay within budget and still feed them all. Most of them are at least eight years old, so I will have to change...

Today I have 10 tomato seedlings poking their heads above the soil, and 6 jalapeno seedlings nodding hello to them. The tomato seeds were saved from an organically grown Brandywine from last summer, and the jalapeno seeds were saved also. The jalapenos are for my wonderful neighbor who lives a...

Today, for the third day in a row, I did not make a pot of coffee. I had a cup of tea instead. I add sugar and lots of cream (the expensive, thick, real stuff) to coffee, so one cup adds up both in $ and in calories. That cup of tea is a bargain by comparison.

"I always tend to think how to bring in more rather than where to cut." I wish more people thought like you! I am a scheduler for a company that does demos. It's amazing to me how many people I call who will tell me...an utter stranger!...how glad they are that I called because they are...

Hey, beekissed.....looks like I accidentallly ran off with most of the title of your journal. Yours is A Work in Progress and mine is Still A Work in Progress. Sorry.

01. Name? Carrol 02. Gender? Female 03. Disneyworld or Disneyland? Neither, lived in Calif for 25 years and never went 04. What is your favorite color? A bright, sunny yellow, pale sky blue, sage green 05. What is your favorite kind of gum? I don't like gum 06. How much do you weigh...

I don't know if this is the right place for this, but I am just floored over this opportunity. Even without the credits or certificates, getting a free education has value. I hope this excites someone as much as it excites me. "What's not to like about expanding your mind... at no charge...

My best find ever...........and this was well over 20 years ago....was a cashmere shell and cardigan in a beautiful soft grey, for only $2!!! They went with everything from blue jeans to a nice pair of black wool slacks that I found at the same thrift store.

Scotty, I am with you on the Method cleaning products. Since we switched over to everything Method, I don't have sore throats and a runny nose after every housecleaning. The stuff seems expensive, but I use even less of the stuff than they call for. A bottle of laundry detergent lasts...

Hmmm, would something related to the tools of self-sufficiency be workable? For example, a person with 1-15 posts could get a "pencil" symbol as they are beginning to pencil in self-sufficiency. A person with 16-49 posts gets a "thinking cap" as they are thinking about the benefits of...

Our bank, Washington Mutual, was bought out by JPMorgan Chase last month. So far it has been a total non-event. Absolutely no difference in our banking. Our direct deposits and automated bill payments have continued exactly as before. Our ATM card is exactly as before. The only difference...

LOVE the kitties! I haven't done any cross-stitch since the time I cross-stitched a dragon on the back of a size XL denim jacket for my brother. Think 37 shades of green. On DENIM. Size XL. What was I thinking???

Lots of terrific ideas here, and I'm amazed at how many of you have found a way to keep it local. We try to give to the American Cancer Society every month, altho we don't always make that goal. I have personally had terrific assistance from the ACS, not financially but with an astoudingly...

A little lemon juice in some warm water will do the trick.

We have 12 indoor cats that use a litterbox and then track through the kitchen. We also have a German/Aussie shephard who's main goal in life is to find a rotting pile of poo and roll in it. We also have a 19 month old granddaughter who is still pretty low to the ground. Given those facts, we...

The FilthyWorldOfGermsAndPlague people have even hit my local grocery store. There are sanitizing wipes NEXT TO THE GROCERY CARTS, so that you can clean the obscenely dirty and disease-laden grocery cart handles. For pete's sake, how did we all survive childhood? Between drinking from a...

I haven't had a "real job" in eight years, but I've earned a reasonable income by being an independent contractor in merchandising and in customer service evaluations. The beauty of my work is that I am not tied down to a set schedule or to taking on work that I don't want to do. With...