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by nbeaver
Mon Oct 24, 2022 6:26 pm
Forum: Challenges
Topic: No Food Waste
Replies: 119
Views: 94070

Re: No Food Waste

It doesn't happen too often, but when I think I have some potatoes that aren't going to get used up in time, I bake them in the oven or the microwave, allow then to cool, then grate them, spread them out on a cookie sheet to freeze, then put them in bags to use up as hash browns later on.
by nbeaver
Mon May 30, 2022 2:40 pm
Forum: Chat room
Topic: Small, Practical Ways to Save
Replies: 30
Views: 10401

Re: Small, Practical Ways to Save

I am astonished at all you who keep the temperature so high in the summer. I keep it at 74-75 during the day--and am still sometimes too warm when I am cleaning house, etc., and try to get it down to 70 at night in our bedroom. I sleep best when the temperature is in the low 60's, which of course do...
by nbeaver
Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:10 am
Forum: Chat room
Topic: A gift for your future self
Replies: 17
Views: 9166

Re: A gift for your future self

I think all frugality is essentially a gift to my future self. By spending below my means, I am making the future better for myself (and those I love, which increases the gift to myself).
by nbeaver
Tue Jun 29, 2021 9:24 pm
Forum: Chat room
Topic: Are Your Meals More Simple or More Complex?
Replies: 21
Views: 16425

Re: Are Your Meals More Simple or More Complex?

I must be somewhere in the middles. I cook--actually cook--nearly all of our meals, and at least twice a week cook for the whole family (8 adults, 3 babies to toddlers). I do a mixture of meat/potatoes/veggies or casserole, Mexican, or Italian entres, but I do tend to cook the same meals over and ov...
by nbeaver
Wed Jan 20, 2021 2:50 pm
Forum: Chat room
Topic: I'm skipping 2020
Replies: 24
Views: 17129

Re: I'm skipping 2020

Thanks to all for the condolences. 2020 was a terrible year, but my son's faith is strong. He told me, maybe a month after losing his wife, "I don't understand people who lose their faith when something bad happens. That's the world we live in." We are still grieving, but God is good.
by nbeaver
Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:01 pm
Forum: Chat room
Topic: I'm skipping 2020
Replies: 24
Views: 17129

Re: I'm skipping 2020

2020 was, hands down, the worst year of my life. Between DH and me, we lost 10 family members--none of them to COVID--aunts, uncles, cousins, but 3 really hard ones: my mom in April, his dad in May, and our sweet daughter-in-law, 23, in a car accident in June. She and DS2 had just celebrated their 4...