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Two books. One way of keeping house.

Lower bills and a warm winter,
the old frugal way.

Fifty years of keeping house on a tight budget, finally written down with this year's prices. One book cuts the light bill, the water bill and the grocery bill. The other gets you through winter on a fixed income.

Frannie's Bill Book, front cover: Frannie at her kitchen table
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Frannie's Bill Book

The old ways to cut the grocery, light and water bills, each with what it costs and what it saves.

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  • 120 household tricks · 73 pages
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Everything Frannie wrote down for the bills and the winter. Both books, one price.

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Book two · On its own

Frannie's Winter Book

Warm house, full pantry and bills you can pay, from October to March on a fixed income.

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120Household tricks
[#]Winter tricks
[#]Pages across both books
50+Years of keeping house
Frannie on her porch with a cup of coffee
Frannie in her pantry with a jar of peaches
A note from the author

“My daughter said, ‘Mom, you're about the last one who still knows how to do all this. Write it down.’ So I did.”

I did not learn these ways from a magazine. They came from my mother in the hills of Kentucky, from more than thirty years in the same house in [county], Ohio, and from the winters Walter and I came through together after we married in 1973.

Much of it was never written down. It was said across the kitchen table, learned by watching, or simply done because my mother did it that way. Walter passed in 2011, and now I live on Social Security like a lot of you. So I wrote it all down for my daughter, my son Carl and my five grandchildren, just the way I do it in my own house.

These books are not about going without. They are about spending less, wasting less, and getting through every month on what comes in.

Frannie

Fifty years of keeping house on a tight budget,
finally written down with this year's prices.

Cut the Bills That
Come Every Month.

120 Old Ways, Each With
What It Costs And
What It Saves.

A frugal house is less about doing without and more about not paying twice. 120 tricks in 8 sections, for the light bill, the heat, the water bill, the laundry and the groceries: the price book, one whole chicken for three suppers, the dye test for a running toilet, a $4 aerator on every tap and sealing the three biggest drafts for $8 to $12. 120 tricks. One book. Yours to keep.

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2026 Edition · 120 Tricks · 73 Pages
Frannie's Winter Book cover
2026 Edition · [#] Tricks · [#] Pages

How I get from October to March on a fixed income,
finally written down the way I do it.

Frannie's
Winter Book

[#] Winter Tricks For A Warm
House, A Full Pantry And
Bills You Can Pay.

Stop paying to heat the outdoors and buying groceries in a panic. Find every draft with a stick of incense and seal it with a tube of caulk. Four parts in my own words, with my warning wherever a trick carries a risk:

  • From the video you just watchedThe Warm House. Keep the heat you pay for, and keep yourself warm first.
  • From the video you just watchedThe Winter Pantry. Food in the house from October to March, bought ahead and stored right.
  • From the video you just watchedStorm Week. What to do when the power goes out and the roads close, hour by hour.
  • From the video you just watchedThe Help Nobody Mentions. Heating help, winter shutoff rules, property tax relief, SNAP and Medicare counseling, state by state.
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Frannie's Bill BookFrannie's Winter Book

Frannie's Complete Library

Cut the bills you have now. Get ready for the winter that's coming.

One book cuts the grocery bill, the light bill and the water bill, trick by trick. The other gets you from October to March on a fixed income. Together, they take you from “how do I pay this bill?” to “how do I get through the whole winter?”

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Questions

Before you order

Which book should I start with?

Choose the Bill Book if your biggest worry is the grocery bill, the light bill or the water bill, all year round. Choose the Winter Book if you want to get from October to March: the heat, the pantry, a winter storm and the help you can ask for. Choose both if you want the everyday savings and the winter plan. The Winter Book has a month of winter meals for one person and a month for two.

Are these physical books?

No. They are PDF books you get right after checkout. Read them on your phone, tablet or computer, and print any pages you want to keep close at hand. Both come with a large-print edition. Want to see a real page first? The free Storm Week Checklist at the bottom of this page comes from the Winter Book.

Do I need to buy special things?

No. The tricks use what you already have, or cheap basics from the grocery store, Walmart and the hardware store.

Is the advice safe for an older person on their own?

Houses and heaters vary. Wherever a trick carries a risk, the book gives you my warning right there. Always follow the maker's instructions, never heat the house with a stove or oven, and call someone licensed for gas, wiring or the furnace.

How will I receive them?

By email from Frugal Frannie ([email protected]), straight after checkout, and on the page that opens when you have paid. No email? Look in your spam folder, or write to [email protected]. One payment, no subscription, and no special app or account.

What if the books are not right for me?

30-Day Money-Back Guarantee. Reply to the delivery email within 30 days and I'll refund you in full, no questions asked. You keep the files.

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Get my free Storm Week Checklist. It opens right here, and now and then I'll email you one of my winter tricks.

Write to me anytime and I'll take you off the list. What I keep, and why

Thank you. Here is your checklist:

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