The Frugal Tuesday Tip — generously share your tips and recipes for living frugally with everyone in bloggerland! Whichever blog that you choose to link up your post, it will show up on all three websites listed below! As a reminder, this linky is a way to share your posts with 3000 people on what you are doing to live the frugal life. Frugality can be gardening, sewing, making your own cleaning supplies, cooking at home, conserving energy, etc. Let us know about your great ideas!

Your hostesses:

• Sara, Learning the Frugal Life

• Jennifer, Getting Ahead

• me, juliecache!

Please read and follow the Frugal Tuesday Tip linky rules

1. Please link your post, written within the past seven days, back to one of the hosting blogs. This is a common linky courtesy. We all end up sharing and learning from each other, which we can’t do when you don’t link back. Posts without will be deleted.

2. No giveaway away or otherwise primarily advertising oriented posts. The other hostesses and I have gone around and around about giveaways. They just don’t fit. We will delete giveaway posts.

3. Use your permalink. Without the URL of the post, it’s really ambiguous and readers can’t always tell where the frugal tip is. (Read here for help on permalinks.)

4. And of course, here’s our button to put in your post or sidebar — just copy the text in the box and paste in html view.

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Mr. TellBlast was working on round 2 of tiling the floor this evening. I cut and dry fit them last night. We are dreading finishing the floor inside the closets, but it must be done.

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love this guy. leveler cured and on the floor, densguard almost ready for the floor.

We installed 48 tiles today.

When dh and I uncovered water damage in the kitchen, we headed straight for the flooring department at all our nearby hardware stores. We noticed that most of our choices were priced similarly. The materials were then not an issue of cost; the labor to install them was the cost. Leading out of this discussion was the lack of trust we had in all contractors to do the job right — after all, we got into most of our house issues because of a contractor(s) not working with proper technique. They were working, but not working “well.” So we’re doing the floors ourselves. If you have the urge to start doing it yourself for the first time, have a look at my Examiner article first. DIY gives satisfaction in the cost, but working with your hands also gives satisfaction without cost.

Now let’s read some more Frugal Tuesday Tips!

It’s my favorite day of the week — you generously share your tips and recipes for living frugally with me! Whichever blog that you choose to link up your post, it will show up on all three websites listed below! As a reminder, this linky is a way to share your posts with 3000 people on what you are doing to live the frugal life. We hope your tips can help us get ready for Mother’s Day this week. If not, don’t worry! Frugality can be gardening, sewing, making your own cleaning supplies, cooking at home, conserving energy, etc. Let us know about your great ideas!

Your hostesses:

• Sara, Learning the Frugal Life

• Jennifer, Getting Ahead

• me, juliecache!

Please read and follow the Frugal Tuesday Tip linky rules

1. Please link your post, written within the past seven days, back to one of the hosting blogs. This is a common linky courtesy. We all end up sharing and learning from each other, which we can’t do when you don’t link back. Posts without will be deleted.

2. No giveaway away or otherwise primarily advertising oriented posts. The other hostesses and I have gone around and around about giveaways. They just don’t fit. We will delete giveaway posts.

3. Use your permalink. Without the URL of the post, it’s really ambiguous and readers can’t always tell where the frugal tip is. (Read here for help on permalinks.)

4. And of course, here’s our button to put in your post or sidebar — just copy the text in the box and paste in html view.

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They were great for soups and salads. I believe in food safety and have planted carrots again this year.

I also found red strawberries in our garden. It’s not even June! Do you have garden plans this year?

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The floor started as this moldy mess:

Water damage. It sucks.

This evening, Mr. TellBlast lifted much of the remaining resilient flooring. A layer of “brick” linoleum made with asbestos lays underneath. It will not be removed. There was still damp flooring from the leaky dishwasher near the closet door.

Here you can see the older and newer flooring:

Red for old, white for new, and wood for the subfloor

He had to peel back to the subfloor in a few spots, which is the plywood sheeting below the linoleum. Masks and high- or out-pressure were how he was dealing with the asbestos. I just applied and am currently waiting for the primer to cure. It’s “white paint” in the photo:

The primer will be covered by leveling compound. This is important to us because we chose tiles for our new floor. If the floor is not flat, the tiles could break (because they can’t bend) when we move the heavy appliances into place. I want to add that tiles were definitely less expensive than the resilient flooring. Perhaps the prep work due to water damage is more expensive, but I say it’s all a wash at the end of the day.

So no siesta for me! I’m staying up for another two hours so I can get the leveler to cure while I go down for the night — not a siesta, but an overnight sleep. I’ll have the fiesta in my dreams. >nice new tile floor, flat and even floor, this all leads to new countertops!!!<

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