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Living a Frugal Life: Exploring Staycations

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Staycations are inexpensive activities that your family can do at home, or locally, that you can all enjoy without running up an expensive vacation tab. You can have just as much fun roasting marshmallows, telling campfire stories and playing outdoors at home as you can at a campground. He wants you to be able to do the same!

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Make Your Own Board Game

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I keep a roll of heavy paper (which I buy at Home Depot for about $11 for a roll about 2 inches thick and 2 feet wide) to use in wrapping packages, protecting floors during home projects, making garage sale signs and etc. I just printed them out on my ink jet home printer. Make or assemble the parts and pieces of the game.

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How I’m Inherently Frugal

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

As this is the start of my blogging adventure here at Prairie EcoThrifter, I thought it might be beneficial to let you all know what makes me tick… what makes me be able to be successful at leading a frugal life. For the most part, I am perfectly happy being at home. Hopefully you can relate to many of these points.

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