People who opt to live a frugal lifestyle don’t usually cite their health as a reason that motivates them to save money. However, there are actually a lot of health benefits to choosing to live a frugal lifestyle. Those health benefits are related to stress reduction, food choices, frequency of exercise and the green living that often comes along with living frugally. You may want to save money for other reasons but it sure doesn ’t hurt that it makes you healthier too! Reduced Stress Improve

Right now, my gray water collection goes like this: 1. Dip bucket into tub to fill 2. Heft bucket out to garden 3. Pour bucket of water onto garden (I use this mainly on the roses, trees and front lawn, not so much the veggies because I am [probably needlessly] anxious about having soap-flavored tomatoes) 4. Repeat…repeat…repeat…repeat…the bucket holds about two gallons (and I am somewhat girly, so that’s all I’d be willing to attempt anyway), and the average bath around here is forty ga