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Make Your Own Board Game

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The year before, after all, I successfully made up a role playing game to reinforce the idea of budgets and household cash flow. For the first round, I used an Open Office Text document and inserted a two column table to make cards about the size of business cards. Little did I know I was entering a whole new genre of hobbyists.

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How to Make a Two Dollar Seventy Five Cent Centerpiece

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I already had saved up a box full of wine bottles, in hopes of selling them at my next garage sale, so we didn’t have any cash outlay for those. Then I inserted each picture into an office text document and added a wide black border around it. It took me a full day to finish putting them together. What was your experience?

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