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Vicki McClure Davidson | December 31, 2008

Tonight, our family (minus daughter, who is embracing college life and all the socialization that goes with it) will have our annual At-Home New Year’s Eve Dinner Party. I started this “New Year’s dinner” ages ago when they were little and it’s been a tradition for a dozen years. This is the one meal of [...]

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Tags: appetizers, champagne, cheap, cheap cooking, cheap tips, dinner, dollar stores, family, financial, Food, Drink, frugal, frugal ideas, frugal tips, frugality, games, Martinelli's Sparkling Cider, midnight, movies, New Year, oysters, party, quesadillas, save money, shrimp cocktail, Times Square, toast

Vicki McClure Davidson | December 30, 2008

By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone George Orwell’s chilling futuristic novel 1984, where oppressive government oversight is in all facets of citizens’ lives, seems to be becoming a reality. In Oregon, cars equipped with GPS devices will be able to document amount of miles driven, and from that data, new taxes levied [...]

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Tags: 1984, Big Brother, cars, consumption, economic recession, electric cars, freedom, gas, gasoline, Gov. Ted Kulongoski, Government, government regulation, GPS, hybrids, invasive, mileage tax, Oregon, Orwell, privacy, reduction, satellite, satellite technology, taxes, taxpayers, totalitarianism, transportation, vehicles

Vicki McClure Davidson | December 29, 2008

By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone A former colleague of mine invited Hubby and me to a lovely after-Christmas dinner party on December 26: gorgeous decorations, buffet dinner with ham AND turkey, warm hospitality, animated conversation with many old friends. As we helped Former Colleague clean up at the end of the [...]

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Tags: bones, budget, carcass, carrots, celery, Christmas, economic recession, food, food budget, free, frugal, herbs, holiday cooking, holiday recipe, holiday recipes, homemade soup, leftovers, lunch, meat, noodles, onion, party, pepper, save money, saving money, soup, Soup Makin' Day, spices, thrifty, thrifty meal, turkey, Xmas