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If you come to Frugally Green next Monday eager for an awesome new post and it isn’t there, remain calm.  It’s coming.  It may not be up until the evening, but I assure you it will go up.

Jessie and I are celebrating our 4 year anniversary (of dating) this weekend and we’re doing it in style.

This afternoon we’ll be headed off to the Oregon coast to hang out with our good friends, the ocean and the woods.

We’ll be staying in a small cabin, playing board games, checking out the local art galleries and doing other totally romantic things.

We won’t be home until Monday and, as I mentioned in my annual review, I done bankrupted my article queue.

As I also mentioned in the review, I haven’t missed a posting deadline yet and I have no intention to.

It may be 11:59 before I finally hit submit, but you can be confident that I will, indeed, be hitting the submit button.

Have an awesome weekend.  You deserve it.

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Over at No Impact Man this week, Colin wrote about the benefits of a renewable energy economy whether or not we’re causing global warming.

His short piece sums up exactly how I feel about environmentalism and man-made global warming.  In the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t really matter if we’re headed for doomsday or not.

Doing the right thing for our planet will always be, well, the right thing.

People seem to need a motivational factor, and global warming fits the bill quite well, but even if it were all a hoax, it wouldn’t change the fact that taking care of our planet is still in our own best interest.

Once in awhile, I hop over to Al Gore’s blog to see what message he’s sending out.  Right now, Al wants you to know that the climate debate does not need to be political.

An ex vice president and leading presidential candidate, I think he’s come a long way in removing the “us vs. them” mantra from the debate.

Al even mentions that some of the most important environmental legislation in history was championed by republicans.

I tend to shy away from politics here because frankly, they don’t interest me, but a message of unity is always a good one, so I’m happy to share it.

Solar water heating has always been relevant technology, but the rise of electric and gas utilities largely overshadowed its usefulness.  That’s why I was happy to see The Good Human bring it up recently with an article titled Heating Your Household Water with the Sun.

Many people think that it’s not sunny enough where they live, but you’d be surprised how little sun it takes to maintain an effective system.

Solar water heaters are a great way to get started harnessing the power of that big flaming ball.  Don’t forget you can save up to $1500 if you install one by the end of 2010.

Finally, I strongly believe that every company should start looking very carefully at the benefits of allowing their employees to work from home.  Increased satisfaction, productivity, and reduced operating costs all coupled with a huge environmental benefit by eliminating the commute is quite a winning combo.

If you’re company’s stuck in the dark ages and isn’t interested in coming out, you can still earn a little side income at home by becoming a virtual juror.

Aldra at Consciously Frugal is trying it out if she gets crazy rich, I’m hoping she’ll buy me some solar panels.

Have you ever attempted to make some side income at home?  What did you do?

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Reminder: You can still enter to win one of my Garage Sale Giveaway prizes until the end of the day. Get to it!

I’m going to let you in on a little secret.  Actually, it’s not a secret at all. I just haven’t told you yet.

When I started Frugally Green in April, I made a few a goals for the site.  By the end of the year, I wanted 100 people to feel like they had gotten so much out of this site that they were willing to let me into their life by subscribing to my updates.

Whether through RSS or email, I wanted 100 of of you to feel like I was your friend – like you could knock on my door, asking for a cup of sugar and I’d smile and oblige.

Well, I want you to know that as of today, Frugally Green has 96 subscribers.  If you’re one of them, I want to say thank you.  You rock.

96 is a very respectable number.  I could end the year right here and be very happy to know that I’ve been able to provide value to that many people. It’s very humbling.

Yet, I would love nothing more than to reach my goal.  Doing so would provide a very concrete ending to a tremendous year.

That’s why I’m going to ask you for your help.

If you’ve been reading for awhile and thinking you’d like to subscribe but just haven’t clicked that little button yet, will you do it now?  If you need some more time, that’s cool.  I’m a patient guy.

I just don’t want you to miss out on any posts that could help you reach your goals.

If you feel like Frugally Green has contributed positively to your goals to lead a more sustainable life, will you take a second in the coming weeks to tell someone about it – your significant other, a friend, a family member?

I want to help even more people reach the sustainability goals they have without breaking the piggy bank.

Seeing my subscriber number grow is more than just an ego boost.  It means I’m actually touching peoples’ lives.  It lets me know I’m headed in the right direction.

If you think I’m headed in the right direction, I would really love your support.

Thanks for kicking ass.

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Ok, enough of the mushy stuff.  Here’s what’s been swimming around my head from the green web this week. Bon apetit.

Prostitutes Offer Free Sex at Climate Summit in Copenhagen – As if you needed another reason to get yourself to Denmark.  Interestingly enough, this “freebie” deal has nothing to do with the climate summit and everything to do with a battle between sex workers (yes, it’s legal in Denmark) and the mayor of Copenhagen.

Perhaps, if only for a short time, we can re-coin the phrase, “Make love and war.”

Going Greener by Going Bigger: Does it Work? – We’ve certainly proved that big apartment complexes are far more sustainable than single family homes and it’s quite obvious that buses go a long way to reduce carbon emissions from cars, but the argument that “bigger is greener” just doesn’t hold up across the board.

This article at Ecogeek explains how huge airplanes, cruise ships, and freeways simply created a way for people to “overconsume efficiently” rather than solve an existing problem.

Should We Bring Back the Bidet for the Sake of the Environment? – This article from The Good Human is all about one of my favorite topics: poop!  Here in the States, we seem to have some sort of deep seeded fear of bidets.

When my girlfriend Jessie and I were in Europe last summer, we used them all the time and I can assure you that they’re:

• A lot of fun
• Very cleansing
• A lot of fun

Bidets always seem to get criticized as water wasters, but not so fast!  Do you know how much water it takes to manufacture a roll of toilet paper? Answer: a lot.

I Finally Sold My Car - My buddy Sean over at Location 180 finally, well, sold his car.  And guess what?  It’s actually made him happier.  He’s getting more exercise, he’s seeing more of the details of his city, and he’s saving a bunch of money.  Oh yeah, and he’s not spitting CO2 out of a tailpipe all over town.  I wish I could say the same.  Good job Sean.

Pretty soon, Sean is headed on a one way trip to Thailand where he’ll likely grow very fond of bidets.  Wish him luck.

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Take a second to check out some of the carnivals that Frugally Green was featured in recently:

• Me in Millions did a stellar job hosting the Best of Money Carnival
• The Festival of Frugality #206 is up at Out of Debt Again
• The Financial Blogger put together the Carnival of Money Stories
• Pragmatic Environmentalism was kind enough to curate the Carnival of the Green
• Check out the Carnival of Twenty Something Finances at The Amateur Financier

This will likely be the last of the carnivals I participate in for awhile as I shift my “outreach strategy” a bit to focus more on guest posting for other blogs that I connect with.  My guest post on Get Rich Slowly was extremely successful and I look forward to finding more opportunities like this.  I hope you do, too.  Frugally Green is growing and it’s all thanks to you.

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I’m posting extra early today just in case you woke up at 4 Am sitting on the fence about whether or not you’re going to participate in today’s train wreck of a shopping tradition affectionately known as Black Friday.

For many of you it’s already too late.  You’re standing in line right now just waiting to push someone’s grandma down and elbow your way to the front of the line for a free doughnut and some cheap socks.

But it’s not too late for you.

If you’ve got your Christmas buying list sorted out and it requires a trip to a big box retailer,  then godspeed.

If, on the other hand, you’re headed out just to see what kind of deals you can get, for god’s sake, quietly step away from the computer, get in bed, and get back to dreaming about the enormous meal your body is still struggling to digest.

They don’t call it Black Friday for nothing and, just like Vegas, they don’t keep all those lights on by giving things away.

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If you’re interested in really stepping up your anti-Black Friday game, you might want to join in on the worldwide campaign, also known as buy nothing day.  You’ll be in good company as Aldra over at Consciously Frugal will be participating and so will I.  Though, I have to admit my efforts will be mostly passive since nearly every day is buy nothing day for me.

Colin at No Impact Man put together a list of his articles that give explicit instructions for how to improve  your sustainability.  There’s something in there for just about anyone. Give it a run through and pick a few that look interesting to you.  This is a great jump start if you’re looking for new ideas.

Just in case you don’t get enough of my and everyone else’s opinion every day, Beth at Smart Family Tips asked 14 environmental bloggers, “What do you think is the most important thing people can do to act in a more environmetally responsible way?” Well, I’m really glad she asked, and I’m even more glad that she asked me. 14 heads are better than 1, I always say.

Finally, if you’re resisting the urge to do any shopping today, but still want to get in on the spending orgy, Josh at The Lazy Environmentalist was kind enough to assemble a small list of the best green gifts for green gadget lovers.  Every family has a gadget lover, so why not hook them up with one of Josh’s recommendations for Christmas?

That’s all for this week.  See you on Monday as we all recover from a nice long weekend. In the meantime, here are a few carnivals that Frugally Green was featured in this week.  Check them out at your leasure:

• The Financial Blogger presents The Festival of Frugality

• The Mighty Bargain hunter put together the Carnival of Money Stories

• The Carnival of the Green was hosted by The Evangelical Ecologist.

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Well, it’s nearly official:  My TV is for sale on Craigslist.  This is kind of a big deal for me.  To be honest, I haven’t watched much TV at all in years and, in fact, I don’t really enjoy it much when I do.  But until now, I couldn’t bring myself to just get rid of the damn thing once and for all.

Though I truly need it for nothing, letting it go feels like the day my mom finally took my baby blanket away – cold, quiet and scary – much how I envision the end of the world will be.  My TV is a psychological baby blanket. Thoughts are running through my head: What will I do without it?  What if there’s something I want to see?  How will I watch movies?

These question are all easily and logically answered with a little perspective: I’ll do other, way more interesting things! I’ll watch it on the internet! I’ll use my laptop!

I didn’t want to answer them, though.  I wanted an excuse to keep my baby blanket around because that’s what made me comfortable.  However, in order to grow, it’s so important to step outside of that comfort zone.

What seems like an itty bitty change can still take a lot of courage when you’re dealing with an ingrained habit, and courage isn’t something you get before you take a leap, it’s what comes afterwords.

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A very wise wolf once told me, “Buy on a whimper, sell on a howl.”  I had no idea what he meant until I ran into an article titled Stock Market Correlations With Moon Cycles.  Now it all makes sense.  Could market peaks correlate with full moons?  Could valleys correlate with new moons? Some would like you to believe it. Don’t take this too seriously, though.  There have been all kinds of funny stock market correlations studied over the years and this is just another fun one to read about.  However, we have spent centuries studying how the moon cycles affect human behavior.  I wouldn’t mind it if this theory got a little more attention.

Pop culture can be awfully interesting, especially old advertisements. Check out this oil ad from 1962 that was published in a magazine touting the product’s wonders – Oil: Enough Energy to Melt Glaciers.  It was published by Humble Oil, which later merged with another company to form Exxon.  As the author points out, the irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife.  Grin and bear it, folks, grin and bear it.

How much house do you need? It’s an age old question that has been answered over and over again with a resoundingly firm “more.” That is, until now. Over at Get Rich Slowly, April points out that the average new home size is finally shrinking for a change. She reports on ways to find your “Goldilocks Home,” or the house that is just right for you.  The advice is to go through each room in your current house and decide if it feels too big or too small for its function, measure it’s actual size, and then adjust accordingly.  Add them all up at the end, and there’s your warm bowl of porridge.

You should be glad to know that Hal, the murderous computer from Stanley Kubrick’s film, 2001: A Space Odessey, has been successfully rehabilitated and reintroduced to society as Earth’s savior as reported by Eco Geek with this headline – Fastest Computer in the World Focused on Climate Change.  Apparently his new street name is Jaguar XT5 and he’s spending his new found free time “creat[ing] models and simulations for predicting regional climate change, studying enzymes for developing better ethanol and writing algorithms for fast nuclear reactors that would produce less waste.” Glad to see you’ve changed your ways, Hal, but we’ll never forget your disturbing past.

Finally, just for fun, here’s an article from Treehugger about the benefits of trading in your weed whacker for a team of goats.

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If you’ve got some energy left, be sure to take a look at some of the carnivals that Frugally Green participated in this week:

My Trader’s Journal hosted the Carnival of Financial Planning

The Eco Salon organized the Carnival of the Green

The Amateur Financier put together the Carnival of Twenty Something Finances

Gather Little by Little curated the Carnival of Money Hackers.

One Family’s Blog curated the Road to Financial Independence Carnival.

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About two months ago, I decided to stop eating so much dang meat.  I started off by cutting my consumption down to no more than every other day.  It started off fine, with minor inconveniences here and there, but then fell into disarray when my life became overly busy again.

I’m happy to report that, since then, I’ve hopped back on the bandwagon and even recruited a partner.  My girlfriend, Jessie, has joined the journey and together, we’re forging ahead, stopping only to argue about which brand of tofu tastes best.

Jessie has revamped the system, as well.  The every-other-day diet was working ok, but clearly needed some attention if it were going to be sustainable.  We’ve switched to an every-other-week diet and coupled it with a weekly meal planning session.  If you knew me, you would laugh at the thought of me sitting down to plan my meals, but somehow I’ve taken to the idea.  I guess all I needed was partner because, well, it’s working.

Our new plan allows for the same number of meat and veggie days, but has the side-effect of increasing our vegetarian days since, during a meat week, we’ll tend to have a few veggie days anyway.  So if you’re struggling with this like I was, try getting a partner and spending a few minutes planning your meals.  Or, ya know, just do whatever the heck works for you!

Onto the Eco Links!

If you’re at a dinner party and you really want to discuss the impending oil crisis, but the term “peak oil” seems just a tad passé, try spicing up the conversation with one of these ten euphemisms for peak oil.  It’s always nice to have a few synonyms in your back pocket when you wear out your word of choice.

If you’re not a fan of dinner parties, you can still enjoy a nice meal at home, even if you hate cooking. Learning how to love cooking is something I could use a lesson in.  My favorite bits?  Turn up the music and grab a glass of wine! Once I’ve got those two elements all I need is a soft chair and I don’t really care about eating anymore.  Perfect!

I eat enough anyway.  We all do.  In fact, we all do and have enough of a lot of things.  There are enough “isms” these days to drive anyone mad, so why don’t we just pair life down to the most important one: enoughism.  I could tell you more about it, but I think I’ve written enough.

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Take a gander at some of the carnivals that Frugally Green participated in this week.  You might stumble upon a few new writers that strike your fancy:

The Skilled Investor curated the Carnival of Financial Planning

The Carnival of Money Stories can be found at Foreigner’s Finances

Gather Little by Little hosted the Carnival of Money Stories

Check out this week’s Festival of Frugality over at Domestic Cents

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I was recently made aware that the video from Wednesday’s video post did not come through for those receiving updates via email.  If you’d like to see it (and I hope you would) here’s a link to Wednesday’s post. I will now go back to learning how to use the internet.

It’s likely that you’ve heard of a gentleman, Colin, who writes a blog called No Impact Man and spent a year living without most of the conveniences of modern life.

What you might not know, is that he started a project to get you and me to join him for a more palatable week long period.  The next week-long go-about begins on Sunday, November 15.  I will be participating and complaining all week about how hard life is.

If you’re interested, check out No Impact Project and sign up.  If you do, leave a comment or send me an email to let me know and we can provide each other some support along the way.

I know Aldra over at Consciously Frugal will be taking part as well, so you’ll be in good company.

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This week, the internet was abuzz with all kinds of awesome stuff that, while not necessarily aimed at the eco-conscious crowd, fits right in without much convincing.

I’m currently in the process of getting rid of all my CDs and moving to a completely digital world of music. Perhaps it wasn’t coincidence that Heather at The Greenest Dollar wrote a post about free online music.  Thanks to her, I’ve been reintroduced with an old college love, Pandora.  In fact, I’m listening right now.

Speaking of love, I’m quite happily courting a beautiful young lady, but I couldn’t help but become intrigued when I ran into a relatively new website, Eco Dater, the other day.  If you’re single and ready to mingle but having a hard time finding just the right organic farmer for you, I suggest you make your way over there for some browsing.  Recycle your scraps at the compost bin after dinner and win your date’s heart for ever.

Once you and your new love have finally tied the knot, you can start your mutual pursuit of the American Dream.  Don’t get started, though, until you read Sean Ogle’s thoughts about the demise of that dream.  According to him, you don’t need to own a house to live your dreams.  As long as you don’t need that, you don’t need to toil away at the same career for 30 years to pay for it, either.  We all know the benefits of minimalism, now don’t we?

Whether or not you own a home, you’re going to have to live somewhere.  Wherever that is, it might as well be a warm, cozy place. Trent over at The Simple Dollar was kind enough to leave us with 10 tricks for staying warm this winter without huge energy bills or, as I like to put it, 10 tricks for staying warm this winter without destroying the planet.

Have a great weekend everyone.  Be sure to check out some of the carnivals that Frugally Green was featured in this week.  They’re a great place to connect with new and interesting blogs:

The Carnival of the Green was curated this week by ooffoo.

Praveen at Simple Trading Systems put together the Carnival of Financial Planning

The Carnival of Money Stories is up at Christan PF

LuLuGal hosted the Carnival of Twenty Something Finances at How I Save Money

The Festival of Frugality can be read over at Frugal Homemaker Plus

The Financial Blogger hosts this week’s Carnival of Money Hacks

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First of all, I’d like to express my gratitude to everyone that completed the very first Frugally Green survey. Your feedback is really important to me and it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy that I have readers that care enough to give up some of their precious time to help this site be the best it can.  That said, here is a brief review of some of, in my opinion, the most important results:

Everyone that took the survey completed it.  This tells me that I at least formatted it right and made it easy for people to share their thoughts.

An overwhelming majority of responders said that social responsibility, sustainability, and personal development were really important to them, but only half said that personal finance was kind of important.  I never would have guessed that second part.  I’ll be doing some real brain busting to figure out what this means to me and how I can better connect with you.

I noted that I was thinking of writing an e-book and threw out a few titles for consideration.  The most popular one was A Frugally Green Reference Guide: Affordable Sustainability for Every Facet of Life. Automated Environmentalism: Set It and Forget It as well as Nature’s Money: Greening Your Finances did well also.  This will be my first big project here and I am really excited to get started.  I’ve never written an e-book before, but there’s a first time for everything.  I hope you look forward to it as much as I do.

I got some interesting responses to“What’s one burning question you have about personal finance and/or sustainability?”  I am planning to answer all of them in an upcoming post. That should be a good time!

Finally, a few of you asked some personal questions and requested feedback.  I will be following up with all of those questions over the next week.  If you ever have a question you’d like me to address, don’t hesitate to contact me.

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Thank you so much for being a part of the first of many surveys.  I love hearing about what I can do to make this a more valuable place to you. Together, we will take over the world!  Alright then, enough with the mushy stuff.  On to the cool bits around the web this week:

Helen Maynard at Affine Financial Services explains a bit about why she is a “solar skeptic” with her thought provoking post, Sustainable Energy: Solar Cell Skeptic. Helen talks a bit about the manufacturing process for solar energy and touches on some of the fuzzy science behind the real energy “break even” time on a solar panel. She says:

“I would rather use Uncle Sam’s money to figure out which of the bazillion solar cell configurations currently under development (or on university sketchpads around the world) is the best solution, rather than burn our limited fossil fuels creating thousands (millions?) of metric tons of mediocre stuff right now.

I can get behind that 100%.

Getting 133 MPG in a 1998 Pontiac certainly caught my attention when I saw it pop up on The Daily Green.  It’s an interview with a gentleman, Darin Cosgrove,  who got the itch to learn about hypermiling long before there was a term for it.  I have no qualms admitting that Darin absolutely puts me to shame.  I’m still hypermiling like crazy, but my efficiency has dropped off a bit since the colder weather kicked in.  You can point and laugh by following me on Fuelly.

Finally, a Frugally Green reader, Jen over at The ArkHaus let me know that she was working on a few frugally green projects herself.  Little did I know that what she meant was she’s building a whole stinkin’ eco-compound of off-the-grid container houses with her boyfriend and their family.  And no, they’re not huddled in the corner of some of some old rusty shipping box.  These things are chic.  Jen, if you’re reading this, I hope you see the incredible business potential!

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Here’s a roundup of blog carnivals that Frugally Green participated in this week.  Thanks to all the hosts.

Zach at Zachstocks published the Carnival of Financial Planning.

The Carnival of the Green was hosted this week by Tate over at Green Stocks Central.

Thanks to The Skilled Investor for hosting the Best of Money Carnival.

The Festival of Frugality can be found over at Gather Little by Little, hosted by Mike.

Kyle over at Amateur Asset Allocator was kind enough to host the Money Hacks Carnival.

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This is the first Friday edition of Frugally Green where I’ll update on things going on with the site and point you to other resources around the web that can help you on your quest to become the frugal environmentalist that you aspire to be!  My plan is to make this a weekly occurrence.

On Wednesday, I promised that I would finally update you all on my computer fiasco.  Nearly two months ago, I came to you begging for help on what to do about my ailing PC.  I wasn’t sure how it would turn out.  I was afraid I wouldn’t get any responses.  I was wrong.  I got lots of great tips and encouragement that spanned an array of opinions.  I want to thank you all so much for your help.

Just over a week ago, I finally received my new (to me) Macbook Pro.  This decision was the result of a lot of thought about how I want (and should) use a computer.  Ultimately, I decided that portability was an important priority that I simply hadn’t considered before. I settled on an Apple machine because I wanted to continue to use the recording software that I’m comfortable with. So, I ended up with a refurbished Macbook and couldn’t be happier.  It didn’t hurt that Apple (accidentally?) shipped me a model with more memory than I had paid for.  Bonus!  I’ll be wearing my palm marks into it for the next decade at which point I’ll ask you for your next suggestion.

Now, I have just a few more hours of work to do on the ol’ desktop that was once my workhorse PC and then it’s off to Free Geek where it will hopefully become a usable machine for someone that really needs it.  Thanks again to everyone that helped me in getting to this decision.

Now, on to the cool stuff going on around the blogosphere:

Heather at The Greenest Dollar reveals a whole bunch of Extraordinary uses for Ordinary Things.  She tells of  set of jelly jars that she converted to candle holders and argues that the things we find valuable in life are those that we give a history to.  If we continuously throw out the old for the new, we rob ourselves the value that comes with caring for an object over a long period of time. Heather goes on to describe a whole bunch of new uses for old objects that she gleaned from a book she read.  I found the sentiment behind her words very moving.

Earth Friendly Holiday Season Tips is a nice little resource for people looking to green up the gift-giving season from Michael over at Green Living Tips (Yes, I know it’s not even Halloween yet!).  There are all kinds of practical ideas from buying rechargeable batteries for gifts to ditching “things” altogether and giving experience based gifts like event tickets instead.  I also really liked the idea of making charitable donations in the names of others, as well.  Christmas is a time when many of us realize that we have so much more than we need and even want.  There are still so many people out there that do not have their basic needs met; I think I’ll be fine without an extra present under the tree this year.

Finally, Aldra at Consciously Frugal wrote a hilarious bit about working class foodies. Aldra always gets me with her wit and I found myself intrigued as I read about the idea of food television for regular people that don’t have spotless kitchens, $10,000 cooking sets, or a make-up and lighting crew.  I am assuming that fits Frugally Green’s demographic pretty well.  If you have a make-up and lighting crew, please identify yourself so that I can contact you about some PR work.

And here are some blog carnivals that Frugally Green is pleased to be a part of this week. Check them out to really work out your learning muscle:

The ever popular Best of Money Carnival was put on by the Canadian Finance Blog (I was the #1 pick this week!)

The Carnival of 20-Something Finances was graciously hosted by The Amateur Financier

Over at Reduce Your CO2 you can read the 199th Carnival of the Green

Green Panda Treehouse hosted the Money Hacks Carnival #87

The 200th Festival of Frugality was put on this week by the lovely Miss Thrifty

You can find the Carnival of Home Improvement over at LEAD Construction

Simply Forties was kind enough to host the Carnival of Money Stories

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