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		<title>Dead fish WHAT????</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HATS!  Dead fish HATS! Yep, I knitted dead fish hats for my three sons and one of my nephews for Christmas.  I&#8217;m not the fastest knitter in the world by any means but they worked up pretty quickly and this is a great yarn stash project that uses up any amount of leftover colors so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homemade Laundry Detergent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Homemade laundry detergent is a relatively new frugal effort for me.  In the past, I&#8217;ve purchased my laundry detergent from a store, pre-made and on sale with a coupon.  I was always happy with the cost of my detergent although not always happy with the effectiveness of the products.  I even went as far as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frugal Hand Treatment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy being &#8220;hands-on&#8221; with a variety of projects: gardening, building stone walls, DIY home projects.  I also wash my hands a lot with my job as a dental hygienist not to mention how many hours a week I have my hands in wash water in the kitchen.  There are days that my hands really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Clean Slate for Spring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a little behind on cleaning up my garden for the fall.  You don&#8217;t want to get sweaty and dirty in the garden when you don&#8217;t have a way to take a good, long hot shower to get clean.  Now that we&#8217;re back on the grid, I&#8217;m catching up on the yard work. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My powerless days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people have asked what I did while we had no power.  Perhaps it speaks to the fact that I really do live a simple life that I did a lot of what I normally do and more!  I know many people I&#8217;ve spoken to complained that they had nothing to do but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back on the grid!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long fall already.  Back in September, we lost power for nearly four days when Irene blew through.   Living off grid in the warm, waning days of summer wasn&#8217;t a too much of an issue.  We were able to fill the thirty-gallon fresh water holding tank in the camper and that along with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homemade Vanilla</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t easily think of one thing I do that yields such delicious, gourmet results with the least amount of effort as when I make home made vanilla extract.  I used to buy my vanilla extract from a reputable herb and spice company and I loved their vanilla but when the cost of their vanilla [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s garden harvest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent some time outside today thoroughly enjoying what could be one of the last remaining truly glorious days of summer.  The sun had burned through a rather thick fog layer this morning and radiated it&#8217;s warmth down despite a pretty constant breeze.  The breeze helped to keep the mosquitoes at bay, just a little.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frugal-families.com/blog/389/todays-garden-harvest/</link>
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		<title>Starting over again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time since I blogged. It&#8217;s not for lack of content, that&#8217;s for sure! I am a very busy woman and each evening I say that I&#8217;ll spend a few minutes writing and then my head hits the pillow and before I know it, the next day has begun. I think that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frugal-families.com/blog/380/starting-over-again/</link>
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		<title>I was fired&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in the spring, there was talk of the state of CT trying to force Amazon to collect CT sales tax by saying that Amazon associates (like myself) constituted a &#8216;physical presence&#8217; in the state by Amazon. This declaration is in response to the Supreme Court saying that a state can&#8217;t force a company to [...]]]></description>
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