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Welcome to the Festival of Frugality! This is the 226th edition of the festival and has been deemed the Earth Week 2010 Edition in honor of Earth Day on the 22nd. There’s a lot of frugality to read today, so let’s get right to it.
The stars of our show this week are the articles that deal with frugality and being green.
- The Homemaking Helper gives us the low-down and dirty on Cloth Diapers.
- Money Crush discusses How Much does our culture affect recycling and frugality.
- Cool to be Frugal gives us Baby Steps to a Sustainable, Self-Sufficient Lifestyle.
- Wisebread talks about the Work Exchange way to see the World.
- Yes I am Cheap is having an Earth Day Giveaway!
- Funny about Money wonders, Can Minimizing Go Too Far?
- Penniless Parenting made a Refrigerator Solar Cooker!
- Energy Saving Gadgets Saves Energy by using Motion Sensing Light Adapters.
A Few Articles that tickled me the right way:
- Live Real Now tells us What My Dog Taught me about Personal Finance.
- Suburban Dollar is Giving the Suburban Garden Experiment another year.
- Money Ning details 10 Situations in Which DIY is More Expensive.
- The Paycheck Chronicles Shares the Coupon Love with the Military overseas.
And here’s the rest!
- If you read, you’ll like this quick post by Money Help for Christians on saving money on books.
- Cheap, Healthy, Good has an excellent article on Couponing for people who hate couponing.
- The Saved Quarter tells us how to save on cell phones.
- Go Banking Rates lays out which are the Best Black Cards in the Business.
- Money Management International asks, What is your money personality?
- Personal Finance Analyst gives us Frugality vs. Deprivation: Does saving money damage your quality of life?
- Learn, Save, Invest remixed the Top 5 reasons to Invest your money.
- Free Money Finance discovered how a New Furnace Saved Thousands.
- Personal Finance Journey details 7 Cost Effective things you can do instead of watching TV.
- Wealth Pilgrim answers yet another Health Reform question with Is there an LTC Policy Provided by the Health Care Reform Act.
- Free from Broke asks us to Choose what expenses are important to us.
- Mad Kane provides us with a Tax Day Limerick.
- Consumer Boomer talks about Checking Your Credit Score.
- Bargaineering talks about How Much is Minimum Wage?
- Good Financial Cents talks about Secured Credit Cards and Navigating the Minefield & Building Back your Credit.
- Provident Plan details why Contentment is not Complacency.
- Joe Plemon talks about the Airstream Saga.
- Budgets are Sexy asks Where have you gotten the best financial advice.
- Dinks finance wonders Should you life on a Cash Budget?
- Balance Junkie gives us some pointers on What if you Budget Doesn’t Balance.
- PTMoney gives us 5 ways the Library can save you Money.
- Saving Money Today has The Movie Lovers Guide to Saving Money.
- The Digerati Life shows us How to Save Money on Food & Groceries.
- The Smarter Wallet tells us Where to Buy Cheap Treasures.
- Ask Mr. Credit Card answers How Does a Hardship Program Affect my Credit?
- Miss Bankrupt posits that There is More than Money.
- The Sun’s Financial Diary Demands More from Previous Purchases.
- Magical Penny tells us Why I Became Interested in Personal Finance.
- Not Made of Money tells us How to Save Money When Buying Plane Tickets.
- The Debt Hawk explains Stock Splits.
- Frugal Family Examiner has some Easy Tips to trim your summer grocery expenses.
- Home Ec101 is Cutting Kitchen Waste and sparking creativity.
- Eventual Millionaire has some Q&A from a Frugal Blogger.
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April 20th, 2010 at 9:03 am
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April 20th, 2010 at 9:06 am
Wow! Lot’s of great reading here! Thanks for hosting and for including me!
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April 20th, 2010 at 9:18 am
There are some great articles here. Thanks for hosting!
April 20th, 2010 at 9:27 am
Thank you for including me and hosting the festival! I will tweet and include you in a post later today.
April 20th, 2010 at 9:44 am
Thanks for hosting! And thanks for the star to guest poster Crystal of Budgeting in the Fun Stuff for her “Minimizing” post at FaM.
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Great carnival with appropriate theme. I am feeling greener already! Thanks for hosting and including my post. Much appreciated!
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April 20th, 2010 at 10:54 am
Thank you for including my post in this week’s festival of frugality!
April 20th, 2010 at 11:02 am
I didn’t tickle you the right way, eh? I’ll have to work on that
April 20th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Thanks for the great festival and for including my article!
April 20th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
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This is a plethora of awesome articles! Who would of thought ‘refrigerator solar cooker’? Gotta check that one out.
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