[StoneFinn]

We do our best to live very frugally. There are a lot of ways that we do that, from growing our own veggies (organic to boot. another added plus. we know every stage of our food), to shopping thrift stores and auctions, to going to the recycling center at the tip.

some of our best scores, which does include 1 New Purchase (which is still one of my best)

The new purchase was a brand new treadmill, on severe clearance, for $100. The original price was $1200. We live in an area that frequently has not-good-for-walking weather more often than not, so it does help us keep up.

Other purchases include shoes such as Zenga's and Bruno Magli's for no more than $5 a pair, without even a single scuff on them.

This past weekend, we saw that a local graphic business was going out of business, and they had a rubbish tip out in the park lot. The first thing that I saw was a really, really nice office chair. Let me say-- it is very, very comfy <spins in it now>

We also pulled out several other things, and things we didn't personally want or could use, we ran over to one of the local thrift store donation areas. We couldn't stand the idea of all of it being tossed.

One thing we find a lot of at the tip's recycling center (where people can drop off usable items in the shed rather than putting them in the landfill, so others can come by and pick up, completely free of any charges) are books. lots and lots of books. Last time we went about 2 weeks ago, we sorted through and picked up 5 milk crates of books.

And one of our last good scores... a "brand new" kitchen... for $300. I installed everything, and even with all that I needed to run to the hardware store for-- the total cost came to $500. That included a new 5 star water-wise mixer tap. I had to put that in, just because the water saving principle will over-rule the frugal principle. YAY ebay!

Long live frugality!!!