Welcome to the January 13, 2009 edition of Festival of Frugality hosted here at Credit Withdrawal. It’s still cold here in the mid-west, but there’s a sprinkling of good recipes, good ideas, and great reading to help you take some of the chill off.
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Chris presents The Joy of Owning Nothing posted at financial reflections, [...]

Well, it’s official. We’re staying home for the holidays. Originally we had planned on visiting family in Seattle, but with the recent horrible weather they’ve been having, a huge number of flights to SEA/TAC have already been delayed or canceled. That and thousands of people are already stuck in Seattle/Tacoma airport just trying to find [...]

I only wish this were a funny or silly headline to grab reader’s attention, but it’s just been reported earlier today that a Wal-Mart employee has been trampled to death by shoppers rushing to take advantage of the Black Friday Christmas sales specials.
At the Wal-Mart at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, N.Y. a [...]

This year, the wife, kids and I are staying home and having a family dinner rather than going to the larger family get-together. Much of this is because of the recent family tragedy that has pretty much cancelled any festivities this year. Some of it is also due to the wonderful economy, and other factors that makes flying cross-country something to look forward to.

Wow! This flu is just hanging on by a thread FOREVER! Still suffering from the lingeringiest, don’t-wanna-go-away-but-just-barely-there cough you’ve EVER seen.