OLD FASHIONED WAYS TO SAVE MONEY AND ENJOY LIFE! Frugal Living!

Save Money! Frugal Living! Learn how they made do in the past! Beat Inflation! Cook from scratch! Old fashioned money saving hints and tips! Early retirement debt free couple shows you how you can have an abundant and full life with less money! Living a debt free life is possible by simple budgeting and not over spending! Debt free living is within reach!

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[beverlyrichards]

Back when I was a kid, Friday nights my mom would make real popcorn not microwave and the whole family would get togather and play cards. Grandparents, cousins I mean the whole family . Summertime we were outside with card tables, winter time we were inside with those card tables. So much fun the grown ups teaching us kids how to play, So now we are doing it with our grandchildern they love it !

[jillybean]

My best frugal memory is spending the night with my mamaw and papaw as a kid. My mamaw would give me a bubble bath, powder me with her perfumed powder and put me in my pajamas. Then they would put me in the car and we would drive to Kings Island amusement park which was close to their house. We would park in their parking lot and watch their nightly fireworks. It was all free, but some of the best memories I have. The love and laughter we shared will be with me for a lifetime.

[jinglesh]

I love the old ways of doing things. I hang all my clothes, I garden and preserve the harvest, make my own laundry soap hand soap and liquid soaps, I make my own noodles, and stuffed pastas, and I sew crochet knit. MY hubby is in a wheel chair so he takes a lot of caring for as well.

[Grrrrrrr]

My mum walked to the shops and would check prices in several stores to get a penny off! She cooked everything from scratch and grew a lot in our garden. She knitted baby clothes for my children and she had six children!! What a woman ❤️

[courtneymillerbruce]

Although I am only 31, I am very frugal. I make my own laundry Detergent. I freeze fresh lime and lemon juice for when I'm making recipes. I reuse ziplock bags. I purchase quality pieces of furniture (used or clearance items). I know there are so many other things I do, but these or just a few.

Always enjoy your videos. It brings a smile to my face.

[kathrynpatterson]

My favorite frugal trick of the moment: I keep an old tangerine crate on my kitchen counter filled with small napkins made from old sheets and use them in place of paper towels for almost all cleanups. They can be thrown in with any load of laundry and reused indefinitely. I went from replacing my paper towel rolls about twice a month to only once every two or three months now!

[sheila]

So I have heard that, back in the day, people put hot stones, wrapped in cloth, in their beds to keep warm. I use a more "updated" method by filling an empty detergent bottle with very hot water, putting the cap on and wrapping it in a towel. Makes a great foot warmer on cold winter nights.

[ThatSimpleLife]

Frugal, old fashioned life in our house includes simple fun (sitting on the patio swing, looking at photo albums, playing the piano, and reading), trying to mend things (clothes, appliances, and even shoes) that still have lots of life left in them, and social life (church activities, neighbor gatherings on the driveway, sending cards and letters, and having people over for homemade soup and bread). Thanks for keeping us thinking of rewarding ways we can live big and spend small!

[beckid]

I start buying my holiday food extras in September. My mom and grandma always would add an extra few ingredients each week so the food budget was not so increased at holiday time. It adds up!🙂

[mizg]

This month is our 45th wedding anniversary. It’s a tradition to have a steak dinner on our anniversary because we planned to have steak on our wedding night (very small wedding) but I ended up having wisdom teeth pulled two days before we were married. Ow!

We have steaks in the freezer we get on sale and vacuum seal for special occasions. We are grilling steaks and having with salad and baked potatoes at home for our celebration. Going to Outback would run $100 or more for the two of us by the time we had steak dinner, beverages, shared a dessert, and tip. We would not enjoy spending that much. I’m looking forward to our cozy and romantic celebration at home 💕

[barbaradobson]

I save the wrapper from the stick of butter. Keep them in a zip lock in freezer. Enough butter in wrapper to grease a cake pan. I learned this from my grandmother which she learned during the Great Depression. Nanny grew up in the Adirondack Mountains on Lake Champlain.

[marykayesugerman]

I have had to get creative with my meal plan. I have started to add pantry items to my meal plan like tomato soup and grilled cheese, pasta with marinara sauce, cheap meals that are less than $5 for the family. Plus I have a neighbor with a garden and more food than they can eat.

[tuxphinsmom]

My frugal tip is in honor of my grandmother who is a product of the great depression. When she passed away my mom and I were tasked with cleaning out her house for an estate sale. We found so many things that were considered trash to the average person but she saved. There were bread bags, twist ties, cleaned out plastic bags, laundry soap caps, etc.
She reused anything she could. In the days we are living in, we are going to need to take a moment before we throw something out and think about whether we can use it for another purpose. It will save us a lot of money if we reuse items instead of sending it to a landfill.
So, idea for the your laundry soap caps off the bottle before recycling and wash the cap for a non food storage container for paper clips, rubber bands, etc. If you want to reuse the whole bottle, clean out the soap residue and use the container for water and watering plants, sand for icy driveways, and storing potting soil.
Glad your computer is back up. Thank you for your great videos.

[mariahunt]

My old fashioned frugal tip is the saying, use it up, wear it out, make do or go without. It’s a constant reminder for me, and of course cooking from scratch. The food is so much better at home!

[karenbransome]

I remember both my grandads fixing the kettles.

Gosh. There are so many as the women in my family shared most of the home stuff you talked about.
Hanging clothes out to dry, fix and mend clothes when they start to get smaller holes and tears.
Use leftovers, grow your own foods.
My great grandmother use to have a squirrel cupboard and shopped from her store cupboard a bit like preppers do.

They had routines. Wash day baking day.
They took care of the house and themselves.

I learnt a lot from my elders and respected them and the knowledge that was passed down.

The best thing I learned was that every day is a best China day. You put your fancy tablecloth on the table and you laid the table neatly.

Napkins were cotton and not paper

It’s sad that it’s been lost.

Another brilliant video that had me in memory lane 🥰

Blessings and best wishes for labour day.

Hugs from England xx

[daisypeanut]

We found two solid wood end tables for our living room at a thrift store, paid $45 total for both.

[dorawedlock]

One of my memories of my mom was how she loved her flower garden. She never purchased plants unless it was a small annual flower and it probably cost a dime. She saved seeds from so many plants to start the next year. In the fall a lot of plants moved inside and she used them for starts for new plants. Her and her friends were always exchanging roots, divisions and plants. No expensive mulch or fertilizers (thank you Bessie ths cow) Weeds were pulled by her and her slave ( me) every couple days. She and others got so much enjoyment from those flowers.

[tonybradshaw]

I have a very strict no phones at the table policy at any family gathering. No exceptions!
We never had Jiffy Pop when I was a child but every weekend my mother would make homemade candy. Usually fudge, caramels, peanut brittle or taffy. We lived for that.

[kathleendillie]

Love the gourmet s'mores idea. My frugal tip is probably something your viewers already know about. When I roast a chicken or turkey, I boil the carcass to make broth. Then I pull all the "extra" meat off the bones and use that in casseroles. I use the broth to make soup. The main concept is to use the leftovers from a previous meal to make the next few meals. If I make spaghetti for Sunday dinner, for example, I use the leftover sauce (always make more than I need for the first meal) to use in a casserole the next night. If there's any sauce after that, I will use it to make French bread pizza the next night.

[kimlahr]

Hi Emmy and Paul love the latest video. Its Kim and greeting from Louisiana . My best and most frugal memory was as a child riding my bike a mile to the grocery store for my mother to complete our family meal it made me feel so important
Best days of my life