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Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

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Kaleva

(38,547 posts)
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 04:42 PM Jun 2014

The ex has pretty much killed my efforts at frugal living. [View all]

Keeping the t-stat at 55 degrees during the winter was never an option. No more pissing in a gallon container and dumping it out on the compost pile or spreading it out over the lawn at night. It's been a long time since I spent an evening cutting up cardboard and non-glossy white paper into small pieces and adding that to the compost. The lawn is mowed once again with a gas powered mower. I am prohibited from saving the shower water and using that to flush the toilet with.

Edit: I'm back at living at the big house with the ex and it is harder to live frugally here then it was at the small house.

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