I'm Stephanie Safarian and this is episode 123.

You are listening to the Sustainable Minimalist Podcast, a show about living simply and

sustainably with your family. Here's your host, Stephanie Safarian.

Hello there friends and welcome back. On today's show we are embracing our inner tightwads by identifying five things we can do at home for free.

Now thriftiness is having a moment is it not it used to be that in normal

circumstances when we are not in the midst of a pandemic, it used to be that frugality is generally shunned upon, right?

Nobody wants to be known as the tight wad, and certainly nobody wants to be the cheap friend. So frugality thriftiness generally it's not considered a good quality to have. But frugality has been reborn, so to speak,

thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of us are being conscientious as we waste less food. We are also

experimenting with growing our own food, perhaps for the first time, by

re-growing scallions on the window cell for example.

Many of us are becoming more mindful of our waste production,

we're washing out those ziplack bags as a means of throwing out less perfectly good stuff,

and these activities, and many more, are no longer activities that get the side eye. Instead the opposite is true. Being

frugal at least right now in this moment in the middle of a pandemic is smart.

Now thriftiness is all about using resources wisely and reducing waste as a consequence. So on today's show I really want to ride that frugal wave that's passing through pop culture right now and I'm doing that by suggesting five ways we can all embrace our inner pinch pennies today and always. Now on today's

show I hope to accomplish two very distinct goals. The first one is to outline what research says about thriftiness and also touch upon why of course thriftiness is important.

The second thing I hope to accomplish today is to offer those five

specific ways we can save money by doing things ourselves at home instead of going

out and paying for a service or a thing to be done for us. Now this

week's show notes you can find them at mama minimalist.com forward slash one

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