Recent content by catdance62

If it's still deer season where you're at you can fill your freezer!

I dont' know how big your garden is, but you can put fish net over every bit of it, top and all. Use PVC for your posts around the perimeter, and then for a top frame. You mught need some in the middle for support. Then just drape the netting all over. You can also get some different kinds of...

Platinum cards are really common. Loads of everyday people have one. My question is, why do you have to pay to have one? Is it a secured card?

We use the select-a-size paper towels for the house and we find a roll lasts a lot longer. At my shop (tattoo shop) good paper towels are a premium commodity. For our work we use Brawny (or target identical brand). I used Bounty for about 12 years until they changed the "recipe", then switched...

We just subscribed to NetFlix and just get the "one movie at a time" deal, but it is great! It's really cheap and we get to watch about 3 movies a week. It's way cheaper than the video store, or even PPV. It is especially good in the winter when we can't bet outside late. (In the summer we're...

I always bring my lunch, but that is because I do not eat that synthetic cr*p that the fast-food industry calls "food". I like my home-made goodness better!

Is there a place like "Seconds and surplus" near you? You might check any seconds place. I guess you need a whole vanity? Maybe you could redesign the bathroom to not need it?

I've enjoyed all the frugal stories! It's nice to be on this forum with like-minded people! I too, went through my 30's buying this and that, throwing parties a lot, etc. Since I've been in my 40's though, I have totally gone frugal, and really just don't buy much of anything. and the partying...

We are headed to Mazatlan, Mexico on Christmas Day--the exchange is 13 pesos to the dollar--the best in a long long time! Yippee!!

I ran for years until I had a serious bicycling accident that did something to my knee that made it get progressively worse. I laid off running and went to walking for about a year, now I am trying to run again. I've noticed that I dont' tolerate running in cold weather as well as I used to so...

How about turkey tettrazzini? YOu can go on allrecipes.com for ideas.

72.73% And I'm helping my DH study for his citizenship test...HA HA!! (he's a Canadian) Those questions were a lot more in-depth than the citizenship test though.

We paid off our house and property when we were in our 30's (we are in our 40s now) and will never ever regret it.

There are a lot of things that you spend money on while you are working that you wont' spend when you are retired, like fancy clothes (fi you work in an office and such), eating out as much, driving to work and back every day, etc. On the other hand reduction of those expenses can be offset by...

I know it's hard not to freak out, but just keep on track and the market will rebound. Eventually you will at least get all your money back, even if you didnt make a lot of money on top of that. I would say by that time though, you should definitely move almost all (if not all) to low or no-risk...