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What Do You Tolerate to Save Money?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

After all, there may still be useful life left in it, no reason to trash it just because one little thing goes wrong. We waited too long to realize that the gaskets around our plumbing vents on the roof had dried out and cracked, letting water trickle down the roof and onto the ceiling. Why tolerate broken?

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DIY Landscaping Tips to Prepare for Fall

Saving Cents With Sense

It takes only four to six hours to install a floodlight on your garage, and materials usually cost less than $100. Measure the distance between the top of the box to the ceiling of your garage. Once the conduit is plumb, connect it to the wall with the conduit hangers. Use a straight coupling to join the conduit and the elbow.

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Your Worst Home

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Most homes were small, rural farmhouses and lacked many basic amenities, complete plumbing and central heating chief among them.” By the time I was a kid, they lived in what used to be a doctor’s home on their 200 acres. When I was born, my parents owned a 700 square foot house, with no indoor plumbing or central heat.

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50 Best Small-Business Ideas – NerdWallet

Savings Corner

Your less math-friendly entrepreneurs could use your help in keeping their personal and business finances in order. Even if you don’t have prior video experience, like graphic design, there are numerous courses online that can teach you how to cut and edit video using programs like Adobe or Final Cut Pro.

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Bee Stung Butts, Freeze Dried Diapers and Other Hilarious Happenings of Poverty

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Today a poor person in America probably has access to electricity, telephones, food, indoor plumbing, central heat and public transportation. In my Grandparents time, none of the neighbors had electricity, indoor plumbing or central heat. Her homes had coal furnaces with radiator heating, electricity and indoor plumbing.

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