Frugality Is Free

It’s time to start back to school shopping, and this is also the time to start shopping for next summer. At The Children’s Place you can now get up to 80 percent off kids clothes and shoes with prices starting at $0.99.

How To Get the Best Deal:

1. Start shopping at Ebates to get 1.5 cash back (Plus get a $10 gift card when you up)
2. Or start shopping directly at The Children’ Place with no cash back
3. Go to the Clearance section
4. Choose prices low to high
5. If you’re going to do a lot of shopping sign up for text messages or emails to get a $10 off $40 coupon to use.

We have very little garden space around our house, but what garden space we do have is utilized to the fullest with raised beds, containers, and our front garden now has a hedge of elderberries and loquats on one side, a plum tree in the middle and a hedge of blackberries and raspberries on the northern side. We plant food wherever we can fit it.… Read more

Now that we have a purchased more than an acre of land, planning a frugal garden has become our mission. We have always been frugal gardeners, but we now have to think on a larger scale, and for this reason growing powder has become our ally.

After carefully evaluating the different types of growing powder, we decided to go with an easy, highly-reviewed solution, so we picked the Miracle-Gro Fast Root Rooting Powder.… Read more

Over the past couple of months Frugality Is Free has been dealing with technical issues, which basically prevented us from getting into our administrative account. We’re back, we’re happy to be here, and hopefully this will be the end of the technical issues.… Read more

Are you having a problem keeping all of your holiday foods and then finding room for the leftovers? After more than a decade of dealing with only a small freezer in our fridge, we finally made the step and bought an upright freezer, and what a big help it is.

After a lot of research we settled on the Insignia 5.3 upright freezer from Best Buy.… Read more