10 Old Fashioned Frugal Living Tips from Grandma (you will save you thousands!)

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My Grandmother ( one of them) always had a garden, canned, quilted, used herbs for medicinal healing. She was born in 1908 and passed away in 2009 . She was so kind ❤ never judged people.

My sweet Mama was exactly the same. If a grandkid wanted to spend the night but didn’t bring clean clothes, they’d have a full outfit, underpants included, in 15 mins. A four course meal out of a few ingredients in minutes. I miss her so much!! She taught me so much about being frugal and living off of the land. I clearly remember eating every kind of wild game and garden vegetables!! Squirrel gravy was a weekly thing!!!❤. PS…. My car is a 2003 Jeep. My car blew up last summer, 500,000 miles on it, so I needed another one. I found the Jeep on Craigslist. Drove 3 hrs to meet the most precious young lady I’ve ever met. She GAVE me the Jeep!!! It has never failed me!!! I’ve been driving it almost a year. It has over 300,000 miles on it and the motor is in excellent shape! She told me her Dad had given it to her 12 years prior and she wanted to give it to someone special. She was just lovely and I made a beautiful new friend!!!

Ohhh my goodness!! Yes!!! You look like your grandmother! Now it makes sense where you get this from! So she was the First frugal mom.. lol.. love this and seeing heritages pass down!! Thank you for sharing a part of your heritage! God Bless!!

My grandma and grandpa built their house with their bare hands and even dug out the ground for the basement. Got hit by a tornado and still survived, except the back porch. She passed away last year at 95 years old.

You and your Grandma look like sisters. Your grandmother is a woman after my own heart. At 79 I still have about 1000 square feet in vegetable gardens and additional flower beds on 1 acre that I mow, weed whip and take care of myself, along with a fish pond. The plants I grow from seed. I freeze, can, and dry for the winter. I made all of my own clothes from age 12 until about 30 years ago when clothes were cheap and I was running a business 60 hours a week. I almost never eat out and make food from scratch. I get fresh free range eggs plus raw honey from my son who has chickens and bees. I get instructions on YouTube to learn how to fix things. Yesterday it was a garage door that kept opening and closing on its own. Today I have to snake out my kitchen sink drain and a few months ago it was replacing a battery in my pickup truck. I use drills, power saws and other tools to build raised garden beds and fix things around the house. I also have a power washer, a Billy goat leaf vacuum, limb chipper, and small chain saws that I use for downed limbs and pruning. My lawn tractor and cart get used everyday in the summer. I have lived in this 4 bedroom house 53 years and 80% of my furniture came from my grandparents, plus 1 bedroom set from my parents. My closet is filled with clothes and many things I have worn for at least 10 years. I do like to purchase some new clothes for travel and going out. The older things get relegated to everyday wear or gardening a paint projects. Like your grandmother I prefer slacks and a T shirt or top with gym shoes.

I wish furniture you buy today would last 40 years!

Sounds like my granny, she could still walk a mile in 15 minutes when she was 94, she was still driving her big 1977 cougar when she turned 90! Still got on the floor to play with her great grand children in her 90's. She was so wonderful and awesome!! ❤❤❤ Love your videos! Thank you!

I also learned frugal living from my grandmother. The dresser and nightstand in my bedroom was purchased for me as a child over 40 years ago. It’s still in good condition. I have a dining room table, queen headboard/footboard, and desk all over 25 years old. They simply don’t make furniture like they used to.

This is completely separate from the frugal aspect of your grandmother's lifestyle, but I always really appreciated the familiarity of the old home where nothing changes, or the uniform outfit. It adds an identity to a person that people they love enjoy being around. I'm only 34, but I try to implement these things into my own life. It's a nice feeling when people always recognize your car driving up, or have the layout of your home furnishings memorized from plopping on your sofa to visit. I'm a gardener and am always in work clothes, but people that know me well aren't caught off guard if my pants always have dirt stains on the knees😂 because it's my identity.People should embrace this concept of lifestyle identity.

You have described my Mom perfectly. It's unbelievable what she did and made it look so easy. She passed away last month at 98.

Christine, I challenge you to do a budget cooking video based on rations given during the depression. That would be AMAZING!

One of my ashley furniture pillow covers that came with my couch, got damaged during their first wash and were not part of the warranty I got with the couches. The company told me it would cost $80 for ONE pillow replacement. I didn't need the pillow, just the cover. They wouldn't sell me just the cover, I would have to buy an entire pillow. I decided to sew it back together myself and saved $80.

Oh, that's what it is called, military shower. Get wet all over, turn off the water, distribute soap all over, turn on water, and rinse. Guys, I'm in my 60ties and I've never done it different, I just didn't know the fancy name. Not even if I take a shower when I'm at a hotel. We were a family of five and our utility bill would've been through the roof.

My grandma didn't use paper towels. She kept a drawer full of clean towels in the kitchen. Even at big box stores, paper towels are outrageous! So, while I still have them only for bacon in the microwave, I too have a drawer full of clean towels for all other uses in the kitchen. Saves loads! Oh, and LOVE my Helix mattress!

You’re grandmother sounds like a wonderful person. My grandmother made beautiful quilts too. I wish I had some of her quilts. My grandmother was born in 1912 and was from a poor area in Kentucky. She was a great cook too and taught my mom how to cook. I really miss them both.

❤ my grandmother was the same❤️ l often ask my grandsons if they would care more about their clothes, if they had to raise a sheep , shear the wool, card it then spin it into thread. Next weave those threads into cloth and now you can sew a shirt, sort of keeps everything in perspective. This generation needs a bit less stuff and more experiences ❤

Wow! I have never seen a granddaughter look so much like her grandmother. It must be so nice to have that connection. Also, yes fresh garden green beans are amazing. My kids even eat them like french fries.

So many of these "tips" made me LOL, as they are exactly the way I was raised. My husband as well. My paternal grandmother raised 10 kids in a 2-bedroom, 1-bath home (many of the younger kids she raised alone, my grandfather passed away when several of them weren't even teens yet). My maternal grandmother raised 13 kids in a 3-bedroom, 1-bath home. We have quilts all over the house that came from my mother or any of our grandmothers. Some of the furniture in my sister's house was in my grandmother's house before we were even born (I'm 50 and she's 56). I was a teenager before I ever had anything from McDonald's.

Didn't you love how she eased into the Helix Mattress sponsor portion of the video! That was smooth!😁😄That's the way I grew up too. My grandmother would get a chicken out of the yard, pluck it, clean it, fry it in the bacon grease that came from their hogs, get greens and corn (or any other type veggie) out of their large garden. There you go! dinner. Oh yes, found a way to have dessert from their fig tree or sweep potatoes or anything else they had growing! Wow, what memories!🥬🥒🍉🌶🍗🥓 Oh yes, they did quilts to keep warm.