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Go Green This Halloween

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We do put up decorations (ones I buy at garage sales or thrift stores and reuse each year). Tip # 2 Recycle/reuse costumes. Bring in your slightly used, but in good shape costume and pick one from those others brought in – as a swap. Compost it by cutting it up and putting it on the pile. Don’t buy, make.

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Meet a Reader | JenRR from the Midwest

The Frugal Girl

After I had kids, I swapped that time to growing all sorts of interesting heirloom foods in my backyard. We share our home with a 70lb rescued mutt. Enjoying some outdoor time. Before kids, I spent my free-time volunteering at a stray rescue shelter for dogs. Purple raspberries from my garden.