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Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

Kaleva

(38,399 posts) Fri Jun 24, 2016, 08:11 PM Jun 2016

My year long experiment at frugal living 2012-2013

My efforts at frugal living

My efforts at frugal living-Part II

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My year long experiment at frugal living 2012-2013 (Original Post) Kaleva Jun 2016 OP

Great reads--I read your adventures the first time around, they are even better the second time! nt MADem Jun 2016 #1

Thanks! I really did enjoy trying to live as frugally as possible back then. Kaleva Jun 2016 #4

I loved reading these. Curmudgeoness Jun 2016 #2

I'm back with my wife so I don't do much of that anymore. Kaleva Jun 2016 #3

MADem

(135,425 posts)

1. Great reads--I read your adventures the first time around, they are even better the second time! nt

Reply to Kaleva (Original post)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 10:07 PM

Jun 2016

Kaleva

(38,399 posts)

4. Thanks! I really did enjoy trying to live as frugally as possible back then.

Reply to MADem (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 25, 2016, 08:16 PM

Jun 2016

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

2. I loved reading these.

Reply to Kaleva (Original post)

Sat Jun 25, 2016, 07:15 PM

Jun 2016

I have to ask if you are still doing these things, or what worked and what didn't. I know that I have had failures when I cut back (just like you, I pay the minimum water bill every month, and can't get it lower by using less water).

And thanks for posting here. This group gets so little attention, and I love hearing from people who are living frugally, and how they are doing it.

Kaleva

(38,399 posts)

3. I'm back with my wife so I don't do much of that anymore.

Reply to Curmudgeoness (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 25, 2016, 08:14 PM

Jun 2016

At least not to the extreme I was. There'd be no way she'd tolerate setting the t-stat down to 55 during the winter and such! I've thought about writing a post about what I thought worked, what wasn't worth the effort, what I had said I'd try to do but didn't and about what I still would like to try.

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