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Don’t be a Buy-It-New Snob

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I used an old seat cushion I had and wrapped it with brand new material from another garage sale to pretty it up and make it softer, then stacked new throw pillows I found at yet another sale for $.50 I used it for years and sold it – for $25 – last summer in my own garage sale. Glass leftover containers 3 for $.75.

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Should You Learn To Sew?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Type in ‘sewing’ into your search engine and you will get a tremendous number of results, all the way from companies selling sewing machines, patterns, and material, to blogs, class offerings, books, magazines, videos and events! I got 160,000,000 results today using Google Chrome. Poly lasts forever! Why do you sew?

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