The Festival of Frugality is held over at My Two Dollars this week. Next week I’ll be hosting-whoohooo!
Back to this week though, there are whopping 37 entries. David started out with his 5 editor’s choice picks, and then lists the rest of the entries in the order they were recieved. Since I always forget to send in my entry (when I remember at all) until Monday, my Deviled Egg Debacle is listed down near the bottom.
So here we go with some of the articles that particularly caught my eye this week.
Wise Bread started the festival with “10 Frugal Things to Try Before You Die“. Now with a hook like that I just HAD to click through and see how many of them I’ve already done. . . .(Six, if anyone cares)
Cheap vs. Frugal-21 Common and Humerous Mistakes over at the Frugalist sounded like it would be a fun read. Although there were interesting points, I didn’t really think it was a very funny article.
Momma and the Boys on a Budget has “Frugal Tips that Make You Gag“. Although I see her point with the one about the tissue, I really don’t understand what her objection is in the first one. See what you think and weigh in using the comments.
And just for pure interest value alone, the Frugal Law Student’s article on where the phrase “Keeping up with the Joneses” comes from is worthwhile!
Don’t forget to mosey on over and check out the rest of the festival at My Two Dollars, and make sure you check in here next Tuesday for when I host!
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I agree with you–what’s wrong with just putting the soaps together?
Sure, there’s stuff I don’t do because its not in my comfort zone, but why get all bent out of shape about others’ choices?
I also agree. The only thing gross was calling the stocking an amputated foot. 🙂
Frankly, the “Frugal Tips that Make You Gag” post was so badly written I had to read it twice to figure out what she was talking about, but when I did I didn’t see what the problem was. Why is the foot of a nylon stocking disgusting? Oh well. Everybody has his (or her) own squick threshold. 🙂
I didn’t see much humor in the Frugalist post either, and none of it was anything I haven’t seen before. It also had a really preachy tone, like “I’LL tell you what’s frugal and what’s just CHEAP.” Please. I admit that there are things that some people do in the name of frugality that I don’t consider ethical, usually because they’re saving their own money at someone else’s expense (like the buffet example, or like someone I know who steals whole rolls of plastic bags from grocery stores to use at home–when most of us are looking for ways to get rid of the darn things), but there were far too many “You should do this BECAUSE I SAID SO” examples in that post.
I guess I felt like she was grossed out that it was bits of used soap-but hey, isn’t all bar soap “used” soap once the first person uses it?
Oh well. I included the Frugalist post because it had some good thoughts for a newbie frugalite-lots of folks are at different points in the process. . . .
I remember reading an essay by Amy Daczycyn on the idiosyncracies people have in frugal ideas they consider too “gross” to try and conventional practices that might be considered equally or more “gross” if thought through that people are accustomed to and don’t think twice about. However, her “Complete TW Gazette” has so many pages I couldn’t find this essay in a quick search!