Thrifty Living Today

Browse by Tags

• advertising
• alternative lodging
• appreciating the great outdoors
• Art
• Art Fair
• benefits of walkig
• bring Grandma with
• camping
• charity
• clothing
• community activities
• community events
• consideation
• consideration of others
• crafting
• dining with family
• DIY
• do it yourself
• do it yourself crafts
• donation
• entertainment for children
• exercise
• fashion
• financial planning
• food
• frugal living
• generosity
• gifts
• grain
• grandparents help with child care
• health insurance benefits
• helping a stranger
• home repair
• keeping fit
• learning
• living with nature
• maintaining a home
• memory of a past event
• planning a visit
• planning an event
• retire
• retireandrenew
• retirement
• reunion
• satisfaction
• self content
• shopping
• Silver Sneakers
• staying with relatives
• strategies
• teaching children about money
• theater
• Thrift
• travel
• visiting relatives
• volunteerism
• wald
• where food comes from

• Art Fair, a way to save money and spend a summer day

  You are bored to death. The children want something to do. You check current newspapers and internet to see if any free activities are available. You see a notice about an Art Fair. You have never been to an Art Fair and you know very little about painting... Posted Jun 12 2013, 01:38 PM by Lori Blatzheim with | with no comments Filed under: life enhancement, crafting, frugal living, living with nature, teaching children about money, exercise, community activities, entertainment for children, appreciating the great outdoors, community events, shopping, Art Fair, Art

• Virtual Thrift Club; how does it work, how can it help people?

  On Easter Sunday I decided to try something different with the Virtual Thrift Club site. I invited the audience to write about strategies they have used that are near and dear to them. Welcome to Thrifty Living Today. A special way of life for the Twenty... Posted Apr 13 2013, 04:28 PM by Lori Blatzheim with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: life enhancement, Thrift, consideation, frugal living, learning, strategies

• Nature creates a reason to explore

  Learn about the world, the whole world. Leave a fast moving society. Appreciate your outdoor environment. Welcome to Thrifty Living Today a special way of life for the Twenty-first Century. My name is Lori Blatzheim and I am your host. I once was a worker... Posted Mar 07 2013, 09:19 PM by Lori Blatzheim with | with no comments Filed under: retirement, life enhancement, Thrift, living with nature, exercise, keeping fit, community activities, wald, appreciating the great outdoors, benefits of walkig

• Would you buy a memory? Would you share it with a child?

  Don't think of Thrift as some sort of behavior that prevents having fun. Actually, it leads to a more balanced and happy life. (Lori Blatzheim) Welcome to Thrifty Living Today, a special way of life for the Twenty-first Century. My name is Lori Blatzheim... Posted Feb 25 2013, 05:03 PM by Lori Blatzheim with | with no comments Filed under: life enhancement, planning an event, memory of a past event, community activities, theater, entertainment for children

• Get to know and understand your health insurance plan

  As I sit here, I am thinking of all the help and funds we have received from our health insurance plans for physician appointments, medical tests, surgeries and illness. Welcome to Thrifty Living Today, a special way of life for the Twenty-first Century... Posted Jan 25 2013, 11:56 AM by Lori Blatzheim with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: retirement, life enhancement, frugal living, learning, exercise, keeping fit, Silver Sneakers, health insurance benefits

• Mall of America: a special place where Seniors can take a carnival ride, one that may remind them of fun as a child.

  “Mom and I spent yesterday at the Mall of America,” my sister Debbie informed me over the phone. We both had a good time walking around and watching children and adults as they rode rides in the central section of the Mall. Welcome to Thrifty Living Today... Posted Jan 16 2013, 04:03 PM by Lori Blatzheim with | with no comments Filed under: financial planning, life enhancement, planning a visit, visiting relatives, planning an event, bring Grandma with, grandparents help with child care

• A childhood and marriage spent watching talented people build and fix things.

  When I was a child, I spent time watching my father make and repair items around the house. He had a talent for mending things that had broken. He would fix window screens, replace screws, and sometimes repurpose things that had lost their original intent... Posted Jan 03 2013, 12:52 PM by Lori Blatzheim with | with no comments Filed under: life enhancement, generosity, frugal living, helping a stranger, volunteerism, do it yourself, DIY, home repair

• The availability and price of food. What if you had to spend much more to buy it?

  Most of us here in the States seldom think about the availability of food. We make our shopping lists and drive off to the Supermarket of our choice. We expect the food to be in the store with a price we usually pay. We never stop to think that the food... Posted Oct 01 2012, 03:55 PM by Lori Blatzheim with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: retirement, life enhancement, retireandrenew, satisfaction, grain, learning, food, where food comes from

• Talent: your own personal resource

  One of the tenets of Thrift is to recognize our resources; to identity them, to care for them, and to use them for ourselves and for others. Welcome to Thrifty Living Today. A special way of life for the Twenty-first Century. My name is Lori Blatzheim... Posted Sep 25 2012, 07:30 AM by Lori Blatzheim with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: life enhancement, maintaining a home, dining with family, consideration of others, charity, generosity, do it yourself crafts, frugal living, self content

• Goodwill is a Special Thrift Store. Why?

  I pulled the car into a parking space adjacent to the Goodwill/Easter Seals building in West St. Paul, Minnesota. My neighbor had been selected as General Manager for the new Goodwill Store in our small city. She had raved about the Tour she had completed... Posted Sep 19 2012, 02:49 PM by Lori Blatzheim with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: life enhancement, retireandrenew, Thrift, donation, generosity, clothing, frugal living, satisfaction, gifts