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Extreme Frugality: Carrying a Full Load
Shopping at liquidation stores is key, but so is doing the laundry … and then some.
03.26.09
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Extreme Frugality: Supermarket Strategy
We used to spend a hell of a lot on food, but now I’ve figured out a better way to shop.
03.19.09
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Extreme Frugality: Teach Your Children Well
If roots mean a mindfulness of disparities in wealth and a concern for the entire family, I’d say we are finally heeding my grandfather’s advice.
03.12.09
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- kids
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Extreme Frugality: Make New Friends But Keep the Gold
Maybe this project has turned me into a prude, but I’m not against having fun—especially when that fun comes in the form of a cassoulet cook-off.
03.05.09
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- culinary culture,
- extreme frugality,
- winter
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Extreme Frugality: Arriba, Pandalus Borealis, Arriba!
Maine shrimp are a firm, tasty treat that also happens to be unbelievably cheap: They’re selling for as little as $1 a pound along the state’s highways right now....
02.26.09
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- culinary culture,
- extreme frugality,
- winter,
- seafood
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Extreme Frugality: Starting Anew
My family’s newly thrifty ways may not be extreme by everyone’s definition, but clearly this economic crisis demands radical changes from all of us.
02.19.09
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- culinary culture,
- extreme frugality
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Extreme Frugality: Me and My Ruffed Grouse
I’d always thought a ruffed-grouse meal would come at the pinnacle of my life, but no matter. This was the kind of price I can afford. Free!
02.12.09
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- culinary culture,
- extreme frugality
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Extreme Frugality: Doing the Unthinkable
For the first time ever, my family of six is going to live within our means—in other words, spend $550 a month.
02.05.09
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- culinary culture,
- extreme frugality
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Mack Attack
Most fishermen use Atlantic mackerel for bait, and no one ever laments the one that got away. But a guy with a backyard smoker and a dream wants to change all that.
August 2007
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- culinary culture,
- seafood,
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