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Extreme Frugality: The Pecking Order
Taking care of chickens is more than we bargained for.
05.21.09
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- extreme frugality,
- culinary culture,
- chickens,
- w. hodding carter
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Extreme Frugality: Doing the Quik Step
A thrifty mind-set transforms unexpected parts of your life. What happens, for instance, when an athlete-in-training has to kick the sports-drink habit?
05.14.09
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- extreme frugality,
- culinary culture,
- beverages,
- w. hodding carter
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Extreme Frugality: Make Way for Seedlings
Enough with the coddling. Now it’s time to show the little ones who’s boss.
05.07.09
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- extreme frugality,
- gardening,
- culinary culture,
- w. hodding carter
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Extreme Frugality: Making Allowances
Planting a garden is hard work. It helps when the kids work for money—or a movie.
04.30.09
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- extreme frugality,
- gardening,
- vegetables,
- w. hodding carter
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Extreme Frugality: Meet the Carters
You’ve read W. Hodding Carter’s Extreme Frugality series; now get to know the author and his family in this video.
04.23.09
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- extreme frugality,
- culinary culture,
- w. hodding carter,
- video
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Extreme Frugality: Dumpster Diving Trumped by Roadkill
Warmer weather means it’s already time to start thinking about next year—as well as what you see by the side of the highway.
04.23.09
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- extreme frugality,
- dumpster diving,
- roadkill,
- w. hodding carter
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Extreme Frugality: Full-Price Fury
An egregious lack of supermarket sale items leads to dumpster diving. Nope, make that dumpster conniving.
04.16.09
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- extreme frugality,
- w. hodding carter,
- grocery shopping
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Extreme Frugality: What Was I Thinking?
There’s no such thing as a free vacation—especially when you factor in four children, one exhausted wife, and a 27-hour car ride.
04.09.09
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- extreme frugality,
- culinary culture,
- travel,
- kids,
- w. hodding carter
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Extreme Frugality: This Grand Experiment is Working
Want some maple syrup on those eggs?
04.02.09
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- extreme frugality,
- culinary culture,
- w. hodding carter,
- eggs
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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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