Tag Archives: frugal living

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Easy tips to use less energy and save on bills

Posted on 03. Jan, 2011 by .

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I currently live in Egypt so am benefitting from very low energy costs (however I have to deal with a lot of power outages and have to use some power outage tips from time to time!). However it’s no time to be complacent and we should all strive to save money on energy and do it for [...]

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Cheapest Places To Rent

Posted on 12. Dec, 2009 by .

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I recently wrote a post on the more broad subject of the Cheapest Places To Live and briefly touched on the subject of rent. Renting a home can be a whole different thing to buying a home and as Rent is often our biggest expense finding the cheapest places to rent in your local area [...]

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Waster Brits trash 4.4 Million Tons a Year

Posted on 11. Jul, 2008 by .

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Welcome to the first “Tight Tips”, a weekly guest post by a good friend Duncan Wilson of www.duncwilson.co.uk It emerged this week that Britons throw away over 4 million tonnes (that’s 4.4 million tons!) of food every year. This vast amount of wastage has been calculated to add an approximate, but equally shocking, £420 to [...]

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What’s in a name?

Posted on 02. Jul, 2008 by .

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Hello and welcome to Frugal Zeitgeist. Today, with global food crises and oil pushing record highs over $140.00 a barrel, frugality has never been so needed. To survive the world of today, many of us have tried, and are trying, to live a frugal but pleasant existence. I believe America IS in recession.  Therefore, it is time to prepare for [...]

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