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Ways to Make Do With What You Have

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We were poor, Mom and Dad lived every day showing us what it meant to ‘make it do’ and we often ‘did without’ Here are my thoughts on frugal ways to make things do. A good deal on a big bag of fresh lettuce isn’t thrifty if you can’t use it up before it rots.

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Meet a Reader | Mbmom11, in the Midwest

The Frugal Girl

How long have you been reading The Frugal Girl? This was a time I had been thinking about not teaching anymore and staying home, so I was looking for new ideas to be thrifty. One of my children has special needs, and we need to look to their future and make sure the kiddo has resources to draw on to be comfortable. 😉 10.

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Our 2018 Financial Goals

Family Balance Sheet

Be Exceptionally Frugal. I don’t want to use the term extreme frugality, because that sounds absolutely horrible. However, we could use a year of extra thriftiness to find any extra funds to accelerate the $10k. We’d like to start saving for it in 2018, if possible. If not, we’ll start saving in 2019.