Our Frugal Journey

This is the 10th and final week that I’ll be blogging about our purge of things we no longer want, need or love.
That’s not to say we don’t still have items tucked into drawers and squirreled away on shelves that need to be sent along their way to new homes where they will be used, loved and [...]

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Instead of purging 10 things in the pursuit of simplicity this week, we purged 34.
Twenty VHS tapes and another 14 8mm tapes are headed to the trash recycling bin* after we converted all our home movies to DVD.
As I wrote about here, we were thrilled to transfer our family footage. We saved money doing it ourselves [...]

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In my seventh week of purging in the pursuit of simplicity, I kicked it into high gear, taking aim at our out-of-control filing system.
On and off for five days, I toiled over our two-drawer lateral file cabinet. No worries coming up with 10 items to purge. I ended up emptying it of 48.8 pounds of useless [...]

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We’re in our sixth week of purging 10 things at a time from our life in the pursuit of a more simplified life. 
In other words, the purge continues, with thanks to Simplified. Organized. Life.
1. Adorable wooden pen with a jiggly frog on the top, a contribution from my daughter after she discovered it would no longer work. Trash.
2. [...]

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I’m now in my fifth week of purging 10 things from our life in the pursuit of a simplified and more organized life. The amazing thing is that we just keep finding stuff. You may wonder how this purging of stuff relates to living a frugal life, but I think the two are completely interconnected.
Decluttering [...]

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In pursuit of a more organized home and simplified life, I am continuing to empty our home of stuff.
I’m doing it 10 items at a time, thanks to inspiration from David, who blogs over at Simple. Organized. Life.
A lot of what’s going out the door, I’ve been donating to a local thrift shop that benefits low-income families [...]

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I’ve got a new favorite blog I’ve started reading and thought I would share it with you.
If you are like me, and you’ve come to believe that less is definitely more, you will love it.
Simple. Organized. Life. is written by David, a guy on a mission to downsize, simplify and declutter his life.
A few years ago, he chucked his [...]

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A reader named Meredith recently posed a question about a post I wrote back in February when I sold my unwanted gold and silver jewelry.
Meredith writes:
Hi…I have been reading your blog for several months now. Thanks for all the helpful tips! I read about your trip to the [jewelry store] during your no spending month…do [...]

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Harris Teeter kicked off its latest triple-coupon promotion Wednesday, which meant more free and ridiculously cheap groceries pouring into my pantry. So, in preparation for the new items, I took a good hard look at the shelves to analyze the stockpile.
Seems I was a tad overzealous purchasing cereal.
With Kellogg’s at 25 cents a box (or [...]

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The month is half over so I thought it was time for an update on my Cash for Clutter Challenge. 
You can read my original post here, but, in essence, I’m trying to purge my home of clutter in hopes of establishing a more simplified lifestyle and at the same time recoup some cash. Most of [...]

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