#frugalliving

(A term coined by @Mia)

Fashion & Style:

Invest in a uniform—curate a go-to capsule wardrobe.

Choose simple investment piece jewelry.

Invest in timeless basics.

Allow yourself one or two classic high-end pieces per year.

Short, one-color nails.

Have a signature scent.

Lifestyle & Eating:

Only eat out occasionally.

Focus diet on salads, lean protein, nuts, and boiled eggs.

Grow a garden for sustainable eating.

Go to the library & use free community resources.

Self-Care & Hobbies:

Carry a high-quality journal.

Romanticize the everyday.

Minimal ‘no-makeup’ makeup & skin care routine.

Hi! i'm Val. 25yo. Argentina 🇦🇷, my native language is Spanish (i'm learning English).

this is gonna be my blog as a student at UNS. I'm studying for a technical degree in environmental studies, and soon I'll be getting a bachelor's degree in environmental science.

I'm finding my place in this world after dealing with years of mental health issues and family trauma. I'm very curious and i love learning new things. I'm interested in various fields of knowledge, and if I had the time, I would learn about everything that exists just for the sake of knowing. I have a 10yo cat named Félix aka "el purri". 🐱 he's an orange boy.

"Frugal" investigator Trait from Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy. Every investigator has 3 to 6 Traits!

If you guys are sleeping on ShopGoodwill for laptops or electronics you gotta get on itttt

I use a ridiculous huge gaming laptop for school I got off ShopGoodwill years ago for $170, but it's way too unwieldy to take anywhere to do schoolwork. (when i got it, I had to order a charger, replace the battery, and put in a 1tb ssd)

I would love to work at the library once in a while, so I just snagged a 11.6 Zenbook off ShopGoodwill for literally $17, $31.83 after shipping. Bad battery, no charger, but the laptop was tested and works fine, comes with linux.

I ordered a new battery and charger, about $40, and I already have a boot drive for Windows to install when it gets here. Will it be crusty and have some dead pixels? Probably. Will I scrub it up and put tons of dumb stickers on it? Absolutely. You can get a great basic laptop for less than $100, and they regularly have cheap Thinkpads that are donated from companies.

empties:

serum

face cream

body mist

lipgloss

hair mask

shampoo

deodorant

toner

new products:

perfume (gifted)

face cream (replacement)

toner (replacement)

body wash (gifted)

my daily driver laptop is literally almost 15 years old. it has a first generation, dual core Intel i3 at 2.4GHz with 4GB of RAM, integrated graphics and a 128GB SSD. and it's perfectly usable for daily activities. I can browse the web, watch YouTube, I can even play some games.

and then I look at people saying that they're surprised that companies still sell laptops with 4GB of RAM. 4GB is perfectly usable! with like 10 tabs open in Firefox I'm using only 3GB.

I got this laptop for free because somebody was going to throw it away like 8 years ago or something, because it was getting slow. it ran windows 10 and was definitely slowing down, but by changing some settings on windows it ran a lot better but still not great.

but by putting Linux on it, it suddenly became perfectly powerful enough. even a heavy distro like Ubuntu ran like a breeze on it. I could play games on it again, I could run a bunch of programs at the same time again, I could watch YouTube at 1080p again.

and to this day it's still perfectly usable with modern software. I switched to Debian, and used a more lightweight DE, and it still runs great. it does have hiccups every now and then, namely Firefox no longer uses hardware video decoding on the GPU which makes it a little jittery with 1080p60 YouTube, but other than that, it's perfectly fine.

and installing and using Linux isn't nearly as advanced as people say it is. with just a little bit of knowledge you can easily install and use Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and others, and bring life to computers again.

it's windows that's making your computer slow. stop buying new computers and contributing to e-waste.