Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Add one or two small new-to-you items to make things seem different. If you maintain it by changing the oil, rotating the tires and keeping it clean you are well on your way to having a serviceable car for years. You Tube can show you how to do most everything these days. If it is broken, fix it instead of trashing it.

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Making Do Making Green And Frugal Friends And Family Sale 219

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Instead they had a well, an outhouse, a wood burning stove for heat and another for cooking. Americans pride themselves on their ‘Yankee ingenuity’ – making do or doing without. Whenever we get into situations which threaten our self-reliance, we will find our freedoms threatened as well.

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Canning At&T Gardening Garden 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 1, 2014

That was true for me as well, but I also think that poverty is a very relative concept. Today a poor person in America probably has access to electricity, telephones, food, indoor plumbing, central heat and public transportation. Dolly, in her book, talked about her childhood entertainment. Poverty is inconvenient.

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St. Louis Plumbing Flowers and Plants Kids and Family 176