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How To Recover From A Home Fire

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Andi has a blog about her house burning to the ground in the Boulder wildfires of 2010 and it brings tears to my eyes. You will find that things the fire did not burn up are now ruined by smoke and soggy with water used to put out the flames. Anything you want to save or re-use will need to be carefully cleaned.

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Save Money – Develop Important Home Owner Skills

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

They wanted all new furniture for their home so they shopped around to find the store they wanted to use. Perhaps the city wants to use your land for some public work and invokes eminent domain laws to take an easement. If you pay full price, you are probably being taken.Americans historically have not haggled for.