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Preparing for Winter Storms

January 28, 2014 By Jenn @ Frugal Upstate 9 Comments

This year has been pretty terrible for winter storms.  The “polar vortex” has caused extreme cold weather even down into the deep south, there have been blizzards in the midwest and along the east coast, and folks have had to deal with snow, whiteouts, freezing rain, ice and power outages.   Whee! In the past… Keep Reading

Processing Tomatoes for Sauce

September 10, 2013 By Jenn @ Frugal Upstate 5 Comments

This weekend I processed tomatoes and made my own tomato sauce! Since my gorgeous tomato plants were decimated by Late Blight (grrr!) I purchased tomatoes from our local farmers market.  I purchased two 25lb boxes of Roma tomatoes for $19 each.  We started out by washing them.  Buddy helped me to lay them on some… Keep Reading

Storm Preparation with Walmart Part 2

October 28, 2012 By Jenn @ Frugal Upstate 7 Comments

This is the second part of a post on Storm Preparedness–Make sure you read Storm Preparation with Walmart Part 1 as well! In Part 1 we covered: 1) Food 2) Water 3) Shelter In this post we will be covering: Part 2 (follow on post) 4) Fire (light/heat/electricty) 5) Health and Sanitation 6) Communication/Security Let’s… Keep Reading

Storm Preparedness with Walmart Part 1

October 28, 2012 By Jenn @ Frugal Upstate 5 Comments

Hurricane Sandy is on it’s way and up and down the eastern seabord folks are scrambling trying to get themselves prepared. But how do you actually prepare for something like this? What do you do?  In a weird coincidence of timing, Walmart had offered all of the Walmart Moms to do a post on the… Keep Reading

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About Frugal Upstate

About Frugal Upstate

I’m Jenn –an Upstate NY wife, mom, blogger and veteran. I talk very fast, read constantly, take on too much and make plenty of mistakes. I’m a real person, not perfection. I love to talk about the frugal lifestyle, “Village Homesteading”, living a more sustainable lifestyle and being prepared for all the curves life throws at you.

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