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Frugal Luxuries by Tracey McBride
http://frugalluxuries.blogspot.com
Frugal Luxuries(tm) is all about taking control of your life, your environment and your finances; it is making things work for you and not against you. It is about saving, money, saving time and being responsible caretakers of our world...while freeing ourselves to enjoy a happy, artful, life. It is about focusing most of our energy on what matters most...our time, our loved ones, our inner sense of prosperity.
- Added on: Oct 9th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Tracey McBride
- Listed in: Home and Garden Economics
- Tags: food frugal holiday voluntary simplicity luxuries
Recent Posts
Blessed Friends...Good Thoughts...Procrastination...Awards and The Secret to Happiness
"Kindred Spirits are not so scarce as I used to think."~Lucy Maud Montgomery~~~~~~~I am sometimes very, very good at procrastinating.Why? Who knows.Perhaps it's the fact that I get ideas in my head about how things should look or be done...and then ...
Simple Tips to Destress the Holidays...and...What They Remember Most
Photo: Chronicle Herald~~~If you're at all like I am...then you are a collector of ideas on how to...De-Stress the Holidays!!I was honored recently to contribute to an article that discussed that very subject.Below, you'll find a little excerpt from...
The Most Expensive Luxury
"Their memories will be encrusted over with sublime andpleasing thoughts."--Henry David ThoreauKatie and Clancy in the forbidden chair.~~~~~~~Excerpt below taken from Frugal Luxuries, by Tracey McBride, Bantam Books, NY, 1997M e m o r y M a k i n g...
Simple Tips for an Elegant, Frugal Holiday Party
Serve simple but delicious foods...in artful and unique ways.Serve ordinary drinks in pretty stemware garnered from thrift shops and estate sales... (they needn't match)...and garnish them with extraordinary, yet simple,touches...(such as the pomegra...
Mary\'s Meanderings: 15 minutes--ok-- 15 seconds of fame! and White Wednesday-
"Friends are helpful... not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better pla...
KINDNESS
" Kindness is a language...which the deaf can hear...and the blind can see."--Mark Twain===Hello to all kind-kindred souls!We've had a bit of a computer problem these past days...just now getting things sorted out!Hoping to post more very soon!Sendin...
