Comments on: Contentment is the Key to Frugal Living http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/money-family-bliss/contentment-is/1798/ Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:46:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: angie http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/money-family-bliss/contentment-is/1798/#comment-13600 angie Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:43:55 +0000 http://blissfullydomestic.com/uncategorized/contentment-is-the-key-to-frugal-living/#comment-13600 I am so pleased to see that someone else actually "gets" it!! You truly do have to be happy and content with your frugalism before you can live through it. I truly think being frugal is a state of mind, it is constant! Love the blog! I am so pleased to see that someone else actually “gets” it!! You truly do have to be happy and content with your frugalism before you can live through it. I truly think being frugal is a state of mind, it is constant! Love the blog!

]]> By: Jenni http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/money-family-bliss/contentment-is/1798/#comment-7563 Jenni Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:15:36 +0000 http://blissfullydomestic.com/uncategorized/contentment-is-the-key-to-frugal-living/#comment-7563 Exactly! It is so easy to blow the $15 you saved at the grocery store on junk. You really need to make frugality a lifestyle in order for it to be successful. (Said to self...) Exactly! It is so easy to blow the $15 you saved at the grocery store on junk. You really need to make frugality a lifestyle in order for it to be successful. (Said to self…)

]]> By: Yvie http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/money-family-bliss/contentment-is/1798/#comment-7562 Yvie Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:55:49 +0000 http://blissfullydomestic.com/uncategorized/contentment-is-the-key-to-frugal-living/#comment-7562 Appreciating all the things that you have; great and small is the key. And also, the key to all of these is inner joy. Being joyful to wherever you may be. Cheers, Yvie Appreciating all the things that you have; great and small is the key. And also, the key to all of these is inner joy. Being joyful to wherever you may be.

Cheers,
Yvie

]]> By: Marci http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/money-family-bliss/contentment-is/1798/#comment-7561 Marci Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:33:54 +0000 http://blissfullydomestic.com/uncategorized/contentment-is-the-key-to-frugal-living/#comment-7561 Gratitude - not Resentment. Something I learned while attending Al-Anon for Families of Alcoholics.... It has sure changed the way I look at things! Focus on the Gratitude - always something good in everything! Gratitude – not Resentment. Something I learned while attending Al-Anon for Families of Alcoholics…. It has sure changed the way I look at things! Focus on the Gratitude – always something good in everything!

]]> By: Sara http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/money-family-bliss/contentment-is/1798/#comment-7560 Sara Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:59:30 +0000 http://blissfullydomestic.com/uncategorized/contentment-is-the-key-to-frugal-living/#comment-7560 Your last sentence sums it up perfectly. Once you really, truly understand that your needs are covered, the wants tend to fade into the background a bit. What's funny is that I always associate the feeling of contentment with the simple things in life. In my head I picture contentment not as cruising around in a fast car, but as laying in the grass and staring at the clouds. Your last sentence sums it up perfectly. Once you really, truly understand that your needs are covered, the wants tend to fade into the background a bit. What’s funny is that I always associate the feeling of contentment with the simple things in life. In my head I picture contentment not as cruising around in a fast car, but as laying in the grass and staring at the clouds.

]]> By: Devilish Southern Belle http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/money-family-bliss/contentment-is/1798/#comment-7559 Devilish Southern Belle Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:54:00 +0000 http://blissfullydomestic.com/uncategorized/contentment-is-the-key-to-frugal-living/#comment-7559 How true! I am the same way with cars...I am carrying two big teenagers around in my 95 Mustang! But I am trying desperately to be more frugal with our food and gas expenditures. I don't have many corners to cut, but we definitely have all we need. How true! I am the same way with cars…I am carrying two big teenagers around in my 95 Mustang! But I am trying desperately to be more frugal with our food and gas expenditures. I don’t have many corners to cut, but we definitely have all we need.

]]> By: Jia http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/money-family-bliss/contentment-is/1798/#comment-7558 Jia Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:59:35 +0000 http://blissfullydomestic.com/uncategorized/contentment-is-the-key-to-frugal-living/#comment-7558 Thanks for this post. I've been wanting to be mroe frugal, but it's my husband who has lived a very material centered life that causes the controversy with having contentment. Maybe I should show him this post. Thanks for this post. I’ve been wanting to be mroe frugal, but it’s my husband who has lived a very material centered life that causes the controversy with having contentment. Maybe I should show him this post.

]]> By: Vickie@PursuingSimplicity http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/money-family-bliss/contentment-is/1798/#comment-7557 Vickie@PursuingSimplicity Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:12:15 +0000 http://blissfullydomestic.com/uncategorized/contentment-is-the-key-to-frugal-living/#comment-7557 You hit the nail on the head...Contentment! So many in our affluent community are SO caught up in the "keeping up with the Jones" that they are causing themselves great problems with debt. So many are afraid to tell their children no and continue to try and keep up with what other parents are doing. I see it every day the look of discontentment on their faces or worry. We jumped off that train over seven years ago and while I have had flashbacks and moments of longing for 'things' I can't trade the feeling of being content with where we are or what God has provided for us. We have been saving and are going to buy a new television in a few weeks. We have not had a brand new television in over 20 years! We have new to us televisions but we have not purchased one brand new. While we may be the ONLY person around that does not have the new flat screen television and who have been watching tv on a 19", we have a sense of contentment about where we are at. Your post was fabulous! You hit the nail on the head…Contentment! So many in our affluent community are SO caught up in the “keeping up with the Jones” that they are causing themselves great problems with debt. So many are afraid to tell their children no and continue to try and keep up with what other parents are doing. I see it every day the look of discontentment on their faces or worry. We jumped off that train over seven years ago and while I have had flashbacks and moments of longing for ‘things’ I can’t trade the feeling of being content with where we are or what God has provided for us.

We have been saving and are going to buy a new television in a few weeks. We have not had a brand new television in over 20 years! We have new to us televisions but we have not purchased one brand new. While we may be the ONLY person around that does not have the new flat screen television and who have been watching tv on a 19″, we have a sense of contentment about where we are at. Your post was fabulous!

]]> By: Belle http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/money-family-bliss/contentment-is/1798/#comment-7556 Belle Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:34:33 +0000 http://blissfullydomestic.com/uncategorized/contentment-is-the-key-to-frugal-living/#comment-7556 This is a great post!!! We started our Frugal life in January and it is still hard at times but so worth it. www.southerness.blogspot.com This is a great post!!! We started our Frugal life in January and it is still hard at times but so worth it.

http://www.southerness.blogspot.com

]]> By: Kristin http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/money-family-bliss/contentment-is/1798/#comment-7555 Kristin Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:12:05 +0000 http://blissfullydomestic.com/uncategorized/contentment-is-the-key-to-frugal-living/#comment-7555 This is so us! We could easily buy the houses, cars, toys, etc. that our friends are buying but are really trying to be wise and good stewards of what God's given us. Sometimes its not fun and other times its totally like a game! Thanks for encouraging everyone! This is so us! We could easily buy the houses, cars, toys, etc. that our friends are buying but are really trying to be wise and good stewards of what God’s given us. Sometimes its not fun and other times its totally like a game! Thanks for encouraging everyone!

]]> By: Elizabeth...mommy...etc http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/money-family-bliss/contentment-is/1798/#comment-7554 Elizabeth...mommy...etc Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:45:46 +0000 http://blissfullydomestic.com/uncategorized/contentment-is-the-key-to-frugal-living/#comment-7554 this was great. it's so true that even if you're not a big spender that is still different than making a consciouse effort to be thrifty. :-) this was great. it’s so true that even if you’re not a big spender that is still different than making a consciouse effort to be thrifty. :-)

]]> By: Caitlin Domanico Photography http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/money-family-bliss/contentment-is/1798/#comment-7553 Caitlin Domanico Photography Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:16:41 +0000 http://blissfullydomestic.com/uncategorized/contentment-is-the-key-to-frugal-living/#comment-7553 Thank you for this post! Thank you for this post!

]]> By: Lightening http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/money-family-bliss/contentment-is/1798/#comment-7552 Lightening Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:11:43 +0000 http://blissfullydomestic.com/uncategorized/contentment-is-the-key-to-frugal-living/#comment-7552 This is so true. My husband and I have experienced the same thing. Sometimes contentment takes practise but the effort really is worth it. We also have a wall of various charities we've supported which is a constant reminder to our whole family how blessed we truly are. This is so true. My husband and I have experienced the same thing. Sometimes contentment takes practise but the effort really is worth it.

We also have a wall of various charities we’ve supported which is a constant reminder to our whole family how blessed we truly are.

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