Theme 1: Frugal Elegance—How can we live the best life we can without breaking the bank? Summary: Let’s share our ideas to cut costs, even laughable failed attempts to save money. The news has featured the pastime of half-priced shopping at the supermarket. Online auctions, Mercari, Hard-Off, and other private sale or resale businesses are booming. Gardeners are selling at bargain prices plants, bulbs, and veggies including rhubarb. DIY repairs and maintenance are more popular than ever. Still others are going homemade (ketchup, pickles, bread), cooperatively buying in bulk, steaming unused stamps off return envelopes. As Ben Franklin said, “A penny saved is a penny earned.”

Theme 2: The other topic is dream trips. Where do you want to go?

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