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10 tips for making your stuff last longer

I am a VERY frugal person and have been doing several of these things for years. They do indeed work.

1. Quit washing your jeans

How often do you wash your blue jeans? After each wearing? Once a week? Once a month? According to some enthusiasts, you're destroying what should-be a longtime love affair. Blogger Dr. Denim says the most enthusiastic denim lovers will wear their new jeans six months before the first washing, then three months before a second washing.

And these aren't washings as you might picture them. Carl Chiara of Levi Strauss and Co. told the Wall Street Journal that at the six-month mark, he soaks his jeans in the bathtub with some very mild soap and lets them air-dry. That's it.

There is also an environmental spin to this issue: The United Nations put out a video encouraging people to wash their jeans less often.

Heat, water and detergents can make those new jeans look old in a hurry, but that's not such a good thing when the goal is to increase the lifespan of your favorite denims.

2. Dry your razor blades

Among the most overpriced items on the pharmacy shelf, IMHO, is the razor blade. An 8-pack of Gillette Fusion 5-blade cartridges from Amazon costs $2.64 per cartridge. If you go through one every two weeks, you'll spend $68.58 in a year. If you could cut that in half, what would you do with the extra $34 in your pocket?

Could these savings be as simple as drying your blades after each use? Oxidation of the steel blade can dull the cutting edge quicker than wear and tear against your facial hair, and the bathroom is the perfect climate for oxidation: warm and moist. If you store your razor in the shower (guilty!), don't be surprised if you find those telltale specs of rust on your blade after only a few days.

To extend the life of your blade, dry it carefully after use (if you use a hair dryer, waft it over your razor, too) and store it in a drawer away from the sink and shower.

There are a number of devices on the market that promise to resharpen your blades, but little information on whether they really work or not. Have you tried one? What was your experience?

See full article from WalletPop: http://srph.it/cYqqDdI am a VERY frugal person and have been doing several of these things for years. They... more

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10 Blogs to Fix Your Finances

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101 Twitter Feeds for Fabulously Frugal Living

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50 Frugality Blogs Worth Reading

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10 Signs You’re an Overspender

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Is "frugal" the latest sexy trend?

After seeing our recent interview with Colin Beavan about his No Impact Project, my friend Dara sent me an email link from gourmet magazine (of all places) about W. Hodding Carter's extreme frugality series. (she told me she thought his initiative was way cooler in her humble opinion). In the intro to the series Carter confesses the state of his finances and how he and his family have been living outside of their means. As a result, they are forced to return to a "little house on the prairy" existence, where they are making their own candles, canning Cod, and other back to earth activities that you do when you are saving money.

Now is the moment when I should step in and mock this, right?

Truth be told, I have no desire to. (I'm secretly craving a dose of this experience myself.) When the green movement began the media mantra was to show people there was a way to care for the environment and address sustainability issues without giving up the creature comforts of their current life style. And so the great green spending spree began. The message was, "you can keep spending, but use your dollar to vote for the sustainability practices that support your belief system."

But is "extreme frugality" the latest emerging trend? Have we come to a place where we understand that (gasp) resources are limited: and the limited resources in our wallet could be the best metaphor to understand the limited resources on the planet?

As it turns out, while in the middle of writing this post I hopped on over to my personal email account to check in how many love letters I have received today (the answer is none btw), but what I did encounter was an email from my sister-in-law about a new initiative that launched today called "slow money." Frankly, after spending 10 minutes on their site I wasn't entirely sure of what they are up to but it has something to do with a grass roots effort to create a new economy and support sustainable agriculture and involves donating $5. Here's what they have to say:
The perfect combo about slow food, slow money and local sustainable foodsystems, this “Thrive, Don’t Just Survive” set is a loaded, how-to guide on destressing, eating healthier with less, the missing links to achieving healthy immune and eco-systems, personal and planetary transformation, and Feeding Ourselves, No Matter What!
Ok...so they say things come in threes....what do you think? Has "green" turned a new corner? Are we entering into the age of self reliance and frugality? (Meanwhile, I'm going to head on over to the library and check out a few of the Little House on Prairie books, and start studying...)

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