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My Best Garage Sale Finds

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you are in more of a hurry, find a thrift store instead. But, find one in a high end neighborhood, one where the store sorts through the donations to select only the best. Garage sales and thrift stores are great places to find books and DVDs. 6 pair of drapes for $3. Books and DVDs.

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5 Easy Budget Categories to Reduce

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We have a local park that has a mile long circuit course. Shopping the sale racks at your favorite store is always an option, but there are two ways to find even better deals on clothing. Thrift : I regularly stop by my favorite local thrift store and find crazy bargains. I’m a big fan of Banana Republic, J.

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P.E.P. for the Week of January 24-28, 2010- Adjustment Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In order to do this I need to take a few courses at our local university. So in an effort to make things a bit more manageable, I have decided to cancel my course for next month. I must say I am a fan of shorter mortgages. Being Frugal tells us how we can rock the thrift stores. Well, plans have had to change.

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90s dress

Work With What You've Got

I found it at a thrift store for a couple bucks. Nathan has this HORRIBLE Kurt Cobain sweater: (I stole this photo from Lara) I am so not a fan of that sweater. This day I wore it with flat boots, because we were running errands all day And of course, knee highs. But I love it. But the guitar ups the hot factor.

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Growing up in the 1950?s

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

People opened their windows and used attic fans or sat in metal lawn chairs outside to cool off. There was, of course, no space travel nor any satellites (at least until Sputnik in 1957). Most of us did not have air conditioned homes. Most of us did not have clothes dryers, we dried the clothes on a line outside. Go Frugal'

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