Extreme Frugality: Meet the Carters – Gourmet Magazine
You’ve read W. Hodding Carters Extreme Frugality series; now get to know the author and his family in this video. Find out what they like and dislike about their new frugal lifestyle, and learn the authors grand ambitions for the family’s garden. www.gourmet.com
Good for you guys! That’s what more people need to do. Get back to basics. We’d all be happier.
Cutting down can be FUN
Great vid…show some more! We can all use some basic knowledge on frugality and how to get by on next to nothing should hard times hit.
What an inspiring video thank you.
I love this video. will you guys make some MORE videos. we want to know more about how you are being frugal and how that garden is going. thanks
If you have 40 acres you can EASILY become self sufficient. There is a family in Pasadena, California on only 1/3 of an acre and they are totally self sufficient.
I dont know why these people want to do it, I am happy spending my money, if I dont, the government will
Please don’t take this the wrong way, but my wife and I have never even come close to making $41,000. We must be super frugal. We Have been getting by on $13,000 a year for the last 2 years, and it’s the most money we have ever made.
You need to use coupons!!!!!!!!
it the best way to save money. watch?v=Zd6MR71dhF0&feature=channel 183.00 for over 900.00 worth of groceries. last weekend I spent 24.00 on 125.00 worth of groceries.
couponmom also has a channel on youtube
This video is a good start, but I have a friend with six kids, who lives in the city, and only spends about $200 a month on food. They eat extremely well, all are healthy.
I grew up on a farm, and used to despise it. As an adult now, I would be honored to have chickens.
thanks for the video. Good luck . subed to follow progress and learn..
Most people forget that the great country of United States was built with FRUGAL families, not ravenous spenders.
People who understood the value of a dollar, that questioned every expense and were used to sacrificing and saving. Frugality brings a family together because everybody needs to pitch in, it takes kids out of the TV and keeps everyone healthy.
Plus (and this is a big one), the food that you grow yourself is FAR more healthy than anything at the store. By miles.
I loved watching this – I loved the chooks and the big container of eggs in the wire basket, in the kitchen – so nice – happy chooks too
I love the walk in pantry area too.
You all seem really nice sensible people
thanks –
“ashjoma” from Australia
Maybe I’m a total tightwad, but all I could think during the scene in the kitchen was, “There’s a lamp on in the other room and there’s no one in there!”
Looking at the food, I wouldn’t waste money on specialty crackers, they’re not a good deal at any price, nor apple sauce. But, yes chock full of nuts coffee, I remember it well, it’s been around for years, has to be a good product. I envy your gardening plans. I try to live very frugally as well.
Get some goats for milk and cheese. You have enough kids to spread the milking chores. Cheesemaking is fun.
clear the land with goats and pigs like the colonists did or clear burn like the native Americans did. Check out Eliot Coleman’s Four Season Harvest (he lives in Maine and gardens year round with coldframes, hoophouses and an unheated greenhouse)
One thing that you can’t buy at ANY price? Letting the children actually contribute to the family! You can see in the shot where they are all around the table, that this family is _connected_ in this project, and it’s a daily thing, maybe a constant thing. Fostering the idea that you can contribute every day as a kid makes that transition into the job market SO easy, and makes you a better contributor in all your endeavors.
next step for you is to start eating healthy – organic and thus help the environment – give a good example to your kids
@ahnaknits Wow you are a complete tightwad x 1000 for you to notice that lamp…lol. I don’t blame you though, I would have sold that lamp or perhaps modify it in a way that would heat up my food and save myself on stove electricity….lol. Ok thats a bit extreme now… xp
great
no point being frugal when the federal reserve is just printing up money and handing it out to his buddies the banking crooks for free.
so while you save, the value of your money is transferred to someone else.
The more food you grow the better off you are. I have been gardening for 3 years and I think I have saved around 10,000 dollars between me and my wife and 2 kids. I have to say though a heavy tomato harvest really helps if you are able to can food. Canned: Chili,Salsa,Spaghetti Sauce,Pizza sauce, and Tomato soup can really help in the winter. The vitamin C is another benfeit too…..
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