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		<title>Homestead Update!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s nearly the end of July already!  My apologies for no updating before this.  We moved Frugal-families to a new server and I&#8217;ve been busy with the spring planting season, the baseball season and now the camping and canning season!   I&#8217;m actually sitting on my frugally redecorated deck, enjoying the cool evening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Seeded Additions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had some good fortune this planting season! Last year I saved off seeds from both my dill and celery. I needed both for pickles and to provide seed for this year&#8217;s planting. Well, my saved dill seed fell victim to an accident this winter when someone accidentally dumped the little paper bag and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fathers Day on a dime&#8230;Is it possible?  Here are 10 frugal ideas for you!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fathers Day is coming up and I know everyone wants to impress that man in their life with a new gas grill or a night out on the town but not everyone can afford it and not everyone wants to afford it if they have other financial goals. So what to do for that special [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frugal-families.com/blog/237/fathers-day-on-a-dime-is-it-possible-here-are-10-frugal-ideas-for-you/</link>
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		<title>Walking onions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Known also as Egyptian walking onions, walking onions are a great everyday kitchen onion. I got my first walking onion from a friend of my dad. I didn&#8217;t know a thing about them! I had never grown an onion in my life but I had chives and figured I had nothing to lose in giving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frugal-families.com/blog/232/walking-onions/</link>
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		<title>$50 deck pick-me-up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My husband and I had some nice plans for our deck this summer. Having fully funded the emergency fund, we had decided to save a bit of money and buy new chairs, fire pit and other things for our deck. We had a great deck built almost 9 years ago, but with a growing family [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frugal-families.com/blog/227/50-deck-pick-me-up/</link>
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		<title>Asparagus- A bed for the next 25 years!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I love asparagus!  It wasn&#8217;t always that way but now I&#8217;m hooked on those tender spring jewels from the ground! I&#8217;ve been wanting to create an asparagus bed for two years  now, but the physical size of the bed kept forcing me to put it off.  Asparagus send out a tap root that can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frugal-families.com/blog/224/asparagus-a-bed-for-the-next-25-years/</link>
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		<title>It pays to shop around!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve had the same auto and home insurance companies for quite a few years.  No claims, no accidents, no problems.  We&#8217;re getting more mature and so aren&#8217;t the vehicles so you&#8217;d think the cost would be going down, right?  WRONG!  Understandably, the cost to replace our home has gone up so the rising cost of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frugal-families.com/blog/222/it-pays-to-shop-around/</link>
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		<title>Busy spring in the backyard homestead!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been busy!  I managed maybe a week off between maple sugaring season and the start of my spring planting.  I spent a few evenings learning about proper crop rotation with my homesteading books and the latest &#8220;Mother Earth News&#8221; magazine.  I made up a quick chart of my beds and decided that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frugal-families.com/blog/220/busy-spring-in-the-backyard-homestead/</link>
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		<title>Do haggle over your cell phone bill!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been frustrated with my cell phone bill for about a year actually and to be honest I did procrastinate initially because I had just had surgery last year and I was exhausted. However this past October I started calling my cell phone provider about fees I was being billed in error etc&#8230; and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frugal-families.com/blog/217/do-haggle-over-your-cell-phone-bill/</link>
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		<title>Pictures of our maple syrup!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, another sugarin&#8217; season has come to an end.  Although I&#8217;m relatively new to the whole sugarin&#8217; thing, this year didn&#8217;t appear to be a great year.  I tapped early enough and still, my entire season was a mere four weeks.  My homesteading journal from last year shows a longer season.  The temps have been [...]]]></description>
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