Comments on: Frugal Friday - Old Fashioned Thrift

By: jam

jam — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:03:55 +0000

Thanks to all of you for dropping by and encouraging me so much! It’s so good to know there are more people out there who think the same way,and who are also way better than me at this!!!!

Love,

Joy

By: Leanne NZ

Leanne NZ — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:10:49 +0000

Great post.

We are into our 4th year of living like this & it’s really becoming a hobby.

Love Leanne NZ

By: Abbi

Abbi — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:45:34 +0000

Great post! I very much agree. The use it up saying is a favorite one of mine. We are really concentrating on it this year. In fact I have been thinking of starting a blog carnival that goes along with that saying. If we followed that saying it would help us to save money, reduce clutter and be better for our enviroment.
Abbi

By: Mom2fur

Mom2fur — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:25:56 +0000

I’ve never had much luck as a gardener–never grow enough to can. I’ve canned strawberry jam with my mom’s help. But I’ve never really tackled it myself for fear of killing my family with ptomaine. My mom…she cans tons of stuff! Alas, she doesn’t live near me (she’s in Ohio, I’m in New York) but if she did, maybe I wouldn’t have such a canning phobia, LOL!
I first read: “Use it up, Wear it Out, Make it Do, or Do without!” in a book I was reading to my kids about these children from New England. It was called “The Boxcar Children.” I’ve always loved that, although I’m not so great about always living by it!
Here is a thrifty recipe that I suppose comes from the depression era. My mom used to make it for us, and now I make it for myself and my daughter. (My sons don’t seem interested, and my husband doesn’t eat bacon.)
Fry some bacon; drain it and break it up–save the bacon grease! Then break up some bread into the bacon grease and fry that until golden. Toss the bacon and fried bread with hot noodles. Add some canned tomatoes–don’t heat them up. And you want whole tomatoes.
Sounds awful, but I promise it is delicious. I always think of my grandmother, with five kids, when I make this. She probably had a little bacon grease left, a heel or two of bread and can of tomatoes, some noodles…and five hungry kids to feed! (I suppose grandpa got the bacon before he went to work.) And now, 70 years later, that very simple recipe is a favorite!

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:00:58 +0000

Great post! I love the idea of the way things used to be too.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:11:20 +0000

I love these posters and what they tell us. Regarding the third poster, I’ve always heard, “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or DO WITHOUT!” Not that I’m good at these things, but I do try!

By: Laura@heavenlyhomemakers

Laura@heavenlyhomemakers — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:45:23 +0000

Thanks for this post! I love the idea of going back a bit to the way things used to be!

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:41:21 +0000

Great ideas! I definitely think there’s something to be said for that kind of thrift.

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:25:07 +0000

You have wonderfully expressed some of my own feelings. Thank you for a very insightful post!

By: Edi

Edi — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:26:12 +0000

For quite some time I’ve had a little card posted in my laundry room with the use it up adage. Just found in on my desk the other day - don’t know how it ended up there.