Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

My parents grew up during the Depression, and they were from the poorest families to begin with, so they taught us all about being frugal and not wasting things. It has been easier to live through the really hard times in my life when pinching pennies really meant something. And it is so much easier for me to save money when I live on so little compared to the people who I work with. They spend all that they make and would be devastated by an emergency in their lives.

As to those throws on sale after the season is over.....I got some of those chenille throws really cheap and made curtains out of them. No sewing at all, just clips that slip onto curtain rods and one of them thrown over the top of the curtain rod as a valance. This came to me because I was pricing new curtains and they were impossibly expensive....there had to be another way.

It is a blessing, I tell you.