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[quote=Anonymous]We do many things that are frugal, some thing we do to be more green too. Some things I have been doing my whole life.

1) Smaller house close to work
2) Thermostats set high in summer and low in winter
3) We use very few ziplock bags, but we do wash and reuse them when we do
4) No dry cleaning
5) Take good care of cars and keep them from birth to death
6) No gym membership- we use the great outdoors
7) Apparently using public school is frugal, but we do it because we prefer public school
8) I do clip DH's hair and I have gone to the same person at Hair Cuttery for almost 20 years- about 5 times a year
9) We compost
10) We cook from scratch using locally grown if possible
11) We have 4-6 loads of laundry a week for a family of 4 (two teenagers)- we wear clothes 2-3 days before we wash them (except for underwear which is changed daily) Some clothes we wear more often.
12) We use public transportation when it makes sense
13) We use the library heavily
14) We fix things first and replace only if they are not fixable
15) We have a lower cost internet/cable set up, same for phones- we don't use tons of data
16) We use one major credit card for everything and payoff monthly.  
17) We usually have 2 large kitchen bags in our trash that is picked up once a week.  Once the kids are gone we will go back to one bag a week.  We make sure everything possible goes into recycling.
18) We don't buy too many clothes/shoes- but get good high quality things that last for years
19) Generally when we fly we use frequent flyers, including trips overseas.  For example, when we took a 16 day trip to London and Paris (including a 3 days weekend in Belguim/Nederthands/Germany/Luxembourgh)our flights were "free" and we found apartments to rent for a week in each city.  We ended up spending around $7k for a family of four.

We have been able to fully fund college (one is at an out of state public university and one looks like he is going to a private), probably over save for retirement and go on nice vacation trips on a salary that DCUM would find impossible.  
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