String bean budgets created great minds!  Never mind if necessity breeds ingenuity; but the flood of tips on frugal living and making the best of it is revolutionizing dinner fare in America. Eating hearty and healthy gets a 9 in a scale of 10. So how does a frazzled mom go about in the grocery frozen and greens section?

She picks up frozen greens that can cost as little as $1, fruits that are beginning to leave the prime of their brief summer flings, and skimmed milk instead of rich creams for soups.  So in-step with frugal living are waist and weight reduction.

With the eye for the less pricey items, moms can save that extra dollar for something really important; and her family still gets to eat healthy and hearty.  Maybe she will go the extra mile to use a little garden plot for tomatoes and herbs; or shop at local farmers’ markets to buy end-of-the-day special fruits and vegetables.   Frugal living is really a matter of necessity not choice.
Having a vacation while living on a frugal high?

That’s possible.  Moms check hotel prices online, schedule an off season vacations and ask for discounts up front. They don’t wait for an offer, it may not materialize. The entire family can still have loads of fun on the less traveled paths.  Wait. Where did this money for this great vacation come?  Of course from frugal living!  So frugal living can give perks.

Haven’t you noticed that living frugally has sharpened the senses?  Haven’t you noted keener eye for details and heightened hearing sensitivity to great bargains?  These finely tuned senses stretched the coupon queue.  There are strange happening with frugal living.  So don’t shriek when you see your less than white socks boiling in water.  It probably has a slice boiling with it to give it a new lease in life.  Strange things are happening with frugal living.

For toeing the frugal living line, mutant scrooges check leaking taps and have them fixed immediately.  She may even go under the sink for loathe of shelling out precious dollars.  She may join the car pool; collect plastic bags, and old newspapers which she disposes with a profit at a later time.   She may also schedule lights all-out-by-10 o’clock and rigidly check the kids’ rooms for any curfew violations.  It’s not about being stingy or mean; it’s about living well on less. That’s the heart of frugal living precepts dears.

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