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Tips for frugal living

This post will be updated regularly with tips people share:

http://ping.fm/yYg0e for some #frugal ideas @alecthegeek
collect as many airline travel kits as possible. Save on travel supplies and bags are useful for laptop kit etc. @alecthegeek
Buy good quality windows laptop and install Ubuntu. Secure and 'just works' but $1000 cheaper than Macbook @alecthegeek
shower's hot water down to its min of 37C, and now add cold water. No idea if I'll survive winter. @garthk

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