Festival of Frugality 138 – The First Principles

by MoneyNing · 34 comments

Welcome to the 138th edition of Festival of Frugality – The First Principles.  When it comes to frugality, some people seem to think that if it’s not already within us, it’s impossible to become frugal.  As personal finance bloggers all know, this is simply not true!  With so many great articles about the subject this week, let’s use this chance to revisit the fundamentals and highlight the first principles of frugality.  Gain the knowledge by learning it, train our behavior by thinking it and put frugality in action by just doing it!

Refreshing Ideas

Learn It

The best gift we have is our ability to learn!  If we can learn a few new ways of saving money every week, we will be a frugality expert in a few years!

Think It

Whether it’s our behaviors or our mindset, it takes constant reminder for being frugal to become second nature.  Here are some examples of how we should think and behave.

Do It

Nothing will result unless we put it in action.  To borrow from a slogan we’ve all heard before, “just do it”!

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To practice frugality, just learn it, think it, and do it!

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Patrick August 12, 2008 at 9:15 am

Thanks for hosting! :)

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Joseph @ Debit versus Credit August 12, 2008 at 9:31 am

Thanks for hosting this edition and of course thanks for the link! :)

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Briana August 12, 2008 at 9:47 am

Thanks for hosting and the link! :)

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Greener Pastures August 12, 2008 at 10:20 am

Nice Festival! Thanks for including my post.

Learn it – Think it – Do it – makes so much “cents.” Ha Ha

I especially like the do it Pic.

Lisa

PS stumbling

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Randy August 12, 2008 at 10:26 am

¡Muchas gracias señor!

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Frugal Dad August 12, 2008 at 10:31 am

Many thanks for the link and the fine job hosting the festival!

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FIRE Finance August 12, 2008 at 11:24 am

Thanks for hosting and mentioning our post. Nice theme and graphics :) .

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tiffanie August 12, 2008 at 11:53 am

great bunch of links here! thanks for choosing my article! :)

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Kate August 12, 2008 at 1:44 pm

Thanks for hosting the carnival. And, congrats on moving to full-time blogging!

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Steward August 12, 2008 at 3:49 pm

I like the picture of the little girl. It looks like she is saying, “This abacus-like tool is so passé. Give me my graphing calculator.”

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Nicole August 12, 2008 at 6:42 pm

Thanks for hosting. Not to be too picky, but I think “principles” in this context is spelled principles, not principals.

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Squawkfox August 12, 2008 at 7:04 pm

The chalkboard pic is giving me university calculus flashbacks. Not sure why since the pic depicts a flow chart of sorts. smile. Thank you for considering my eBook a refreshing idea!

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MoneyNing August 12, 2008 at 8:56 pm

Nicole: You are right! :) Definitely should be principles instead of principal.

My previous school principals will definitely want to kill me for not learning anything :)

Thank you for pointing that out and it’s corrected!

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Del August 13, 2008 at 5:02 am

Thanks so much for the link love! :-)

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christmas August 13, 2008 at 11:12 am

Thanks for reminding and sharing such wonderful links. The majority of them are of great interest for me!

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marci August 13, 2008 at 11:44 am

Whew! What a lot of GREAT reading! Think I will star this and keep it in my inbox for future rereads also! Great!

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J. Money August 14, 2008 at 5:20 pm

Just came across this – awesome job!

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