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Frugal Story of the Week: Thrifty Little Old Gal Verna Oller Secretly Leaves Millions to Town to Buy Swimming Pool (video)

| June 12, 2010

No one knew that feisty 98-year-old Verna Oller was a millionaire. Stories like this truly warm my heart. God bless you, Verna. May you rest in peace. From Wallet Pop, Verna Oller, little old lady and secret stock picker, leaves small town $4.5 million: Verna Oller was a proud cheapskate to the very end of [...]

Best Frugal Story of the Week: Ohio Teen Lindsay Binegar Saves for Years, Pays Cash for Home with Her 4-H Club Prize Hog Winnings (video)

| May 17, 2010

Stories like this one get me giddy with pride and excitement… the obsessive frugalista in me embracing another frugalista sister. Way to go, Lindsay! Reported by Columbus Dispatch, Frugal teen buys house with 4-H winnings: Lindsay Binegar was 14 the first time she spent any winnings from years of showing hogs. She bought a purse. [...]

The Galling, Appalling Waste of “Cash for Clunkers”

| August 2, 2009

I’m a die-hard frugalista. I can make four or five dinners (and several lunches) for my family of four from one baked chicken (save those bones!). I wash and reuse ziplock bags, shop for clothes almost exclusively at Goodwill, and don’t own a cell phone, don’t have cable TV, nor do I get my nails [...]

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