Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Moving more while spending less time on screens is at the heart of what it means to be frugalmatic. It's all about getting more value out of everyday life.
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It’s easy to confuse the difference between being frugal and being cheap. I’m guilty of it, and the experiences almost always end in disappointment. Frugality is about wisely spending money, while being cheap is about […]
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Charlie Tennessen enjoys a good pizza. But what’s more, he enjoys the story behind the ingredients in that pizza. It’s a big reason why he grows his own wheat on his homestead in Southeast Wisconsin,
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If you want to spend less time on social media, it’s important to identify non-screen activities that can fill the void and win your attention. Cutting down on social media use requires long-term focus and
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I’m starting to hear commercials for pumpkin spice coffee and Octoberfest beer, which can mean only one thing. Fall is coming. Do you have your rake ready? And I do mean rake, not a leaf
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Many people who would like to give up their smartphone say they can’t because they depend on their phone’s GPS navigation system. As someone who’s never had a smartphone, I want you to know it
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The best “life hacks” save both time and money, but they usually don’t make life less sedentary. The 5 hacks in this post are a little different: They “hack” into sedentary activities and turn them
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Even if you never bike to work, chances are you have seen others do it. What about running to work? Have you ever tried it or seen someone doing it? If you live here in
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One of my goals in creating the Frugalmatic website has been to inspire people to become more physically active. I’m not talking about training to run a marathon or anything that intense. I’m talking about
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If you’re the kind of person who doesn’t enjoy running for the sake of running, let me introduce you to plogging. I tried it for the first time recently, and I wish I had thought
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Even some of the most frugalmatic among us occasionally reach the end of the day realizing we spent more time sitting than we intended. For whatever reason, we were tied to our chairs at work,
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