Saving Cents With Sense

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

If you are looking to enjoy some holiday homemade goodness, take a look below at a simple Christmas craft you can enjoy this weekend. We were able to find the cup and saucer at our local thrift store for just a quarter each. Place this charming piece of homemade holiday décor anywhere you can use some sparkle.

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Saving Cents With Sense

MAY 29, 2014

A picnic in the park is charmed fun, but you can’t exactly snack on a homemade cheeseboard wearing the lingerie that makes your man-person pulsate with desire. Local Thrift Shop Tour. After hours of splurging on homemade sweet treats, take time away from your love nest and tour your town’s thrift shops.

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Log Cabin Thrifting Wine Lingerie 81

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 4, 2013

You can also freeze homemade meals, including soups, casseroles and other items. Before you get rid of items that are still in usable condition, consider trying to sell them, or give them to a thrift store. If you decide to buy in bulk as a way to save money, you can preserve some of that food for later. Pay Attention to Packaging.

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Frugal Luxuries

JULY 9, 2011

herbed sugar pie in a jar rosemary bread.baked in a jar cupcake paper liners to embellish homemade jam in jars cocoa mixes in jars pretty pastel gumdrops in simple recycled jars rose petal and sea salt bath scrub.in What are some of the ways use use your recycled and/or thrifted jars? jars Perhaps this is an obsession.I

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 19, 2014

They argue that the children will be teased as they grow up and will feel unloved because their parents got them homemade gifts rather than buying them new. 8 Ways to Inspire Children to Help Others How to Shop at Thrift Stores for Clothes To Save Money. Others Support the Decision. Do I Really Spend US$27,288 Each Year on My Child?

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Friends And Family Sale Clothing and Accessories Kids and Family Clothes 176

Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

I’m always amazed by the amount store tags I see on clothing and household item at thrift stores. Another friend sells her homemade artisan bread and another friend sells hand sewn dolls at craft fairs. And now you can thrift shop from the comforts of your own home with online thrift stores like thredUP.

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Emergency Fund Money Finds Friends And Family Sale 100

Family Balance Sheet

MARCH 23, 2011

There is an initial investment, but I have seen similiar containers at yard sales or thrift stores and at Bed Bath and Beyond where they regularly offer 20% coupons. I re-use pasta sauce jars for my homemade chicken stock , or my Roasted Roma Tomato Sauce , or my homemade sugar-free applesauce and store them in my freezer.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 23, 2014

On Halloween we did a trick for our treat inside of a neighbors house, without our parents around and got homemade goodies to eat as a treat. Kids did chores and not all of them were ‘safe’ My brother mowed the lawn with a homemade electric lawnmower. Kids could roam the neighborhood by themselves safely. Go Frugal'

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Growing Home and Garden Radios Kids and Family 180

Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 1, 2021

I’m always amazed by the amount store tags I see on clothing and household item at thrift stores. Another friend sells her homemade artisan bread and another friend sells hand-sewn dolls at craft fairs. Instead of letting stuff languish unused and eventually given away, return it! And put the money in your emergency fund!

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Emergency Fund Money Finds Friends And Family Sale 130

Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Homemade Iced Tea: Ignore the tea stains on the pitcher! Thrifty Finds in February: I try to hit up my favorite thrift store at least once a month. I have saved so much over the years by looking at thrift stores or yard sales first before trying a regular retail store for our needs. As a family, we drink a lot of water.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Thrift stores are also a great place to shop. I wrap loaves of homemade bread in aluminum foil and tie a bow around the middle for a special gift to close friends and relatives. They kind of look like the ones for sale at Curious Country Creations. Plan ahead and hit garage sales, but especially estate sales.

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Holiday Friends And Family Sale Kids and Family Christmas 202

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 28, 2011

We also bring a homemade lunch every day and not only does it save us money but it also keeps our health in check. Being Frugal tells us how we can rock the thrift stores. Our current projects have to do with homemade beauty and cleaning products. Going Frugal. By May,the whole house will be clutter free and organized.

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Work With What You've Got

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

I had a wonderful night with my church community, eating homemade Indian food and talking. I love vintage, and of course I’d rather buy it myself from the thrift store, but if I must buy from a middle man, Loves Me Not is a great one. Sorry about the small selection as well as the indoor pics today. I didn’t get home until 9:30 or so.

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JANUARY 15, 2015

and homemade enchilada sauce for a Mexican casserole the next night! Sell Stuff I have a bin in our closet that I collect items we no longer need and when the bin is full, I either sell the items or deliver them to the thrift store. This way the food doesn’t “feel” like leftovers! I then used that cash to buy coffee, milk, and eggs.

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Frugal Luxuries

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

You may call it by other names such as prudence , sparingnes s and thrift , whatever your choice may be it always means the unwillingness to squander goods and spend money unnecessarily. At the moment I'm thinking of using them as gift packaging for tidy stacks of holiday cookies or a delicious batch of homemade Poppycock.or???

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