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You’ve come to the right place to find tips for saving money while keeping good stuff out of landfills. Over the years, we’ve discovered tons of ways to do that — and we have pictures to prove it!

Want to make your own super glass cleaner, your own outdoor cleaner, or your own fire starter from inexpensive ingredients? Click on Creative Concoctions for the recipes.
Learn frugal decorating tips, including how to make your own sofa table, in the Décor on a Dime category.
In The Gentle Art of Mending with Glue you can find out how a friend of our saved $10,000 by applying a bit glue to a broken Croatian salt-and-pepper penguin.
The rest of the categories are also full of great tips for saving money, including our famous $15 wedding dress post (The Fiercely Frugal Shopper).

We realize we don’t have a corner on creative unconsumerism, so we welcome your comments, too. Working together we can thrive during recessions and still be kinder to the planet.

The Fiercely Frugal Savage Sisters,

Diana & Jennifer

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- No-Cost Paint Container September 1, 2010
  Joan, an honorary Fiercely Frugal Savage Sister, recently gave us a great idea for do-it-yourself painters. Husband Hank set out to touch up the fence, but the full gallon of paint was too heavy and awkward for him to manage. He and Joan looked around for a smaller container but could find nothing suitable. Joan [...]
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- Save Money When You Have a Surprise Baby March 18, 2010
  A guest blog by Aimee, the daughter of Fiercely Frugal Savage Sister Diana Within days of losing my job last year, I was shocked to learn I was pregnant. After fourteen years of marriage, my husband and I had assumed we would never have children, and many family members had completely given up hope for [...]
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- Make Your Own Utility Tables February 17, 2010
  When Carmen Davis-Stevens needs a table, she doesn’t spend hard-earned money to purchase one. She simply makes what she needs out of materials on hand. As an honorary Fiercely Frugal Savage Sister, Carmen shares with us how she made two such tables. A “Pig” Table One day Carmen’s husband brought home a piece of stainless [...]
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- Getting More out of Your Fireplace December 6, 2009
  Our uncle and cousin used common materials and Savage ingenuity to increase the efficiency of their fireplace.
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- Increasing Wagon Mileage September 10, 2009
  Jennifer and I enjoy tool sales. While we understand that “cheap” often translates into “doesn’t last long,” we still gamble once in awhile. So does our friend Carmen. Several years ago, Harbor Freight Tools had a special on large wagons, the kind similar in appearance to classic Radio Flyer wagons, only larger. Carmen purchased two [...]
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- Second Life for Chicken Wire and Lawnmowers August 13, 2009
  When Carmen got tired of looking at a pile of chicken wire that once surrounded an old poultry pen, she tried to squish it into small wads. “‘A Spade Is a Spade’ is what resulted,” she told us. “After that I made other shapes of a card suite and then a wire man. Carmen was [...]
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- Clever Chair Rescue after Cat Claw Damage August 3, 2009
  Being Fiercely Frugal runs in the Savage family. This week’s post is about how our cousin Jeanie resurrected four gorgeous chairs that her cat mistook for scratching posts. It really wasn’t the cat’s fault. (Jennifer and I are such feline aficionados that we’ll look hard and long to give a kitty the benefit of the [...]
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- Carmen’s Clever Wood Stove Conversion July 23, 2009
  Carmen Davis-Stevens, our honorary Fiercely Frugal Savage Sister, recently sent us pictures of her stove-conversion project. Jennifer and I are impressed. We thought you would be, too. Carmen purchased an old wood-burning cook stove to use in her summer kitchen.* Not only was the stove in need of repair, but she’s also never had much [...]
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- Carmen’s Door Magic July 10, 2009
  When our guest blogger Joan recently told us about her stepdaughter, a person after our own creative, recycling hearts, she bragged about one of Carmen’s creative projects. Fifteen winters ago when wind was blowing in under Carmen’s front door, she took an old leather belt with a broken buckle, cut the belt to the width [...]
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- Beat the High Cost of Dining-Room Chairs June 21, 2009
  It wasn’t until our old dining-room chairs were already kindling that I discovered how expensive new chairs would be. Sticker shock made me fervently wish I had first tried to mend the rickety ones with wood glue. That was thirty-three years ago. Six years ago, when I needed dining-room chairs again, I hunted for the [...]
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You’ve come to the right place to find tips for saving money while keeping good stuff out of landfills. Over the years, we’ve discovered tons of ways to do that — and we have pictures to prove it!

Want to make your own super glass cleaner, your own outdoor cleaner, or your own fire starter from inexpensive ingredients? Click on Creative Concoctions for the recipes.

Learn frugal decorating tips, including how to make your own sofa table, in the Décor on a Dime category.

In The Gentle Art of Mending with Glue you can find out how a friend of our saved $10,000 by applying a bit glue to a broken Croatian salt-and-pepper penguin.

The rest of the categories are also full of great tips for saving money, including our famous $15 wedding dress post (The Fiercely Frugal Shopper).

We realize we don’t have a corner on creative unconsumerism, so we welcome your comments, too. Working together we can thrive during recessions and still be kinder to the planet.

The Fiercely Frugal Savage Sisters,

Diana & Jennifer

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