Frugality Archives

How to Build and Use a DIY Composting Toilet

A DIY composting toilet is a great solution for temporary disasters or long-term off-grid living. Here’s how to build one and how to use it.

While you can reuse plastic grocery bags for more trips to the store, there are plenty of other off-grid uses for plastic grocery bags.

If you’re into saving money and upcycling old items, you should know that wire coat hangers have all sorts of off-grid uses.

A food co-op is kind of like a grocery store that’s owned by the people who shop there. Here are the benefits and drawbacks of a food co-op.

There’s no need to buy all sorts of cleaning supplies. You can clean your entire home with baking soda, vinegar, and castile soap.

Gardening can be very expensive if you don’t know how to be frugal. Here are some frugal gardening tips to save you money.

Milk can spoil easily, but there are many ways to use it after its spoiled. It’s good for baking, feeding animals, and nourishing your skin.

There are a lot of frugal living tips floating around the internet, but many of them are myths. Here are 7 frugal living myths to avoid.

Tree resin has many survival uses including making soap, starting fires, easing pains, helping to heal wounds, and much more.

Also commonly known as zip ties, cable ties have dozens of uses. They’re so useful, a prepared home should never be without them.