Couponing 101

JANUARY 24, 2019

From your closets and pantry to your craft room and garage, Elfa works just about everywhere thanks to its modular design and good looks. And, while other “custom” organization solutions often only work for the specific space you originally bought it for, Elfa is interchangeable and can be customized for years to come!

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Organic Organization Garage Home 61

Family Balance Sheet

OCTOBER 30, 2013

She was a stay at home mother and the hours fit her husband’s work schedule. It might be a good fit for a stay at home who needs to work their schedule around their’s spouse’s. Do you have an extra bedroom or is there an unused room above your garage? Find a Seasonal Part-Time Retail Job.

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Finds Part Time Hobby October 113

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 28, 2014

We’ve used this for about 6 weeks now, and we’ve been pleasantly surprised with how economical it is as well as how good it works. I happened upon some old canning Mason jars at a garage sale, and now we use those for everything–making iced tea in the summer, putting leftover soup in, holding our homemade laundry detergent.

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Saving Money Simple Money Friends And Family Sale 191

Family Balance Sheet

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

We have always loved to travel and do missions work for our church. Daniel can work anywhere there is an internet connection and the kids can homeschool anywhere, but we didn’t have the money to buy the plane tickets or book AirBnB apartments. We sold extra items that we weren’t using through Craigslist and garage sales.

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Debt Debt Free Finance Friends And Family Sale 245

Couponing 101

JANUARY 3, 2019

From your closets and pantry to your craft room and garage, Elfa works just about everywhere thanks to its modular design and good looks. And, while other “custom” organization solutions often only work for the specific space you originally bought it for, Elfa is interchangeable and can be customized for years to come!

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Organic Organization Garage Home 40

Couponing 101

JULY 9, 2011

Alicia a work-at-home mom to a 3.5 Alicia loves to bargain shop wherever she goes…the grocery store, the craft store, restaurants, garage sales, and online stores. I am happy to introduce you to my friend and new Couponing 101 contributer – Alicia Whatley ! year old daughter and an 18 month old son.

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Garage Sale Garage Work At Home Son 77

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 23, 2015

You have to work through the mechanics of the game. Apparently there are mathematical ways to work on game mechanics, but a more practical method for me as a first time creator of a board game was just to keep playing it after I came up with most of the design. I just printed them out on my ink jet home printer.

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Games Making Garage Sale Kids and Family 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 23, 2014

riding lawn mowers, garage door openers and many, many more things we take for granted today. The average home size in America was around 1100 square feet. Ours was smaller (about 700 square feet) – 2 bedrooms (my brother and I shared one and my parents the other), a kitchen and a living room, No basement or garage.

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Growing Home and Garden Radios Kids and Family 180

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 28, 2012

We all need to eat on a daily basis, but you can cut back on your dining budget by eating at home. Most restaurant-style meals are easy to prepare at home at a fraction of the cost, and you are able to control what ingredients are included. When cooking at home, try to reduce meat consumption to save money.

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Phones Bills Money Saving Money 202

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

But, because we leave behind the accumulated stuff in our parent’s household, we really end up with less that we had at home. Once we are out of school and into the working world, another phase of the stuff life cycle begins. We leave the nest – move out of Mom and Dad’s well stocked home. You get stuff.

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Cycle Kids and Family Friends And Family Sale Garage Sale 113

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 29, 2014

I worked for a menial’s hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.”. I’ve held myself back many times because of this and am working on allowing myself to forget my self-imposed restraints, to reach beyond my comfort zone and experience more, do more and be more.

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Savings Corner

DECEMBER 27, 2023

What is your ideal work environment? Whatever your field of expertise, starting a consulting business is a great way to make a sizable income while working on your own terms. As an independent marketing professional, you can work with small businesses who don’t have the in-house bandwidth to execute their marketing plans.

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Real Estate Re-use Podcasts Work 52

Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 1, 2015

Although it will take hard work and sacrifice on our part. How to Set and Keep Goals to Make This the Best Year Ever | Jen @ Girl in Garage. 15 Ways to Stay Organised at Work During 2015 | Elizabeth Harrin @ A Girl’s Guide to Project Management. Hot Work at Home Jobs for 2015 | Holly Hanna @ The Work at Home Woman.

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2015 Money Debt Home and Garden 100

Saving With Shellie

MARCH 1, 2017

If you don’t have a compressor at home, this would be a nice addition to your garage or work area! The C2002-WK includes a 13-Piece Accessory Kit with a 25-foot nylon hose, blow gun and attachments, tire chuck, tire gauge, quick coupler, plugs and Teflon tape. Shipping is free with Super Saver Shipping when you spend $49.

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Pancakes Garage Amazon MP3 40

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 1, 2015

I use old casual office clothes to work around the house. I have a closet full of work clothes I wore to the office for 20 years, mostly casual slacks and blouses. There are just two of us at home now. One of them even has a hole in it, but hey, it is here and it still keeps the lacquer in its place. Cheap or frugal?

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Frugal Cheap Clothes Clothing 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 10, 2011

If you happen to have an extensive library of DVD’s at home, consider donating them to the library so others can live a little bit thriftier as well. Renting out your garage or backyard for RV or classic car owners could bring in $25 to $150 per month, depending on the space you allocate. Shop Online.

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Green Rent Library Green And Frugal 185

For the Mommas

JULY 24, 2016

If you need to earn less, this allows you to choose to work less, or work more but retire early. Shop around at garage sales, thrift stores and online classifieds for furniture and other household items. Brown bag it to work. Find all kinds of fun activities you can do at home. Reduce your wardrobe.

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Frugal Lives Frugal Living Frugal Magazine and Newspaper Subscriptions 49

Saving Everyday

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

It is meant to be entertainment and nothing else, and it’s obviously working since millions tune into watch it. I don’t have a huge food stockpile because it’s just my daughter and I at home, and we just don’t need it. I do stockpile frozen veggies and they go into a small deep freeze kept in the garage.

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Health and Beauty Garage Saving Money At&T 75

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

We are leaving 3 entry doors, the garage doors, the windows in the garage, the small kitchen window and a large picture window in the master sitting room in place. Plan on having to do some extra work and deal with a mess for awhile. What we looked for in windows and doors. What we found while window shopping.

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Shopping Home Depot Painting Insurance 100

The Frugal Girl

JANUARY 29, 2024

Now I’m living on the small acreage that I was raised on (which is now smack dab in the middle of town & 2 miles from work) with my mom & my two kids, 15 & 8. We teamwork together to homeschool-I was homeschooled until nursing school, and I am privileged to be teaching my kids & have my mom assist on the days I work.

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Arkansas Frugal College Kids and Family 181

The Frugal Girl

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

My degree is in mechanical engineering, but I’m just starting a transition to nursing – before I got pregnant with my son, I was working as a nursing assistant while my husband finished grad school, and planning to go on to nursing school. C with Finn, my parents’ dog Our daughter is 12, and very into the arts and science.

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Kids and Family Parenting Cars Car 191

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

We shopped at garage sales, turned down the heat, combined errands to use less gas, didn’t buy a lot of prepared food, cooked at home and the like. When our first baby came we used cloth diapers (so we didn’t have to pay for the disposable ones) and had to freeze dry them in the garage in the winter.

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Thrifty Garage Spendthrift Fair-Trade 213

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 5, 2014

It’s absolutely nuts the amount of people who will complain about having a hard time saving money, who are living hand to mouth, who still eat lunch out every single day at work. per lunch if you just brought something at home (and I’d say that is a pretty elaborate lunch). Do you have any idea how expensive this is?! Money Tips'

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Budgeting Budget May Lunch 245

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 8, 2014

Two car garages. With the two income household came the need for more than one set of wheels and consequently the desire for multiple garages. Many new homes now have 4. Home offices. Yes more folks work from home these days and the tax laws encourage setting aside a space to dedicate to a home office.

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Phones Parenting Kids and Family Credit Cards 204

The Frugal Girl

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

It’s not a big splurge, but I take my kids at home out to McDonald’s for lunch once a week. (I’ve He got his roofing urges out when he build our garage last year though!) My home would easily be 5-6 times more expensive on the East Coast. I also hate mending – which is not frugal at all.

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Kids and Family Money Home and Garden Frugal 189

Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 2, 2016

These days, I’m pleased to say, I have moved on, and now work in a marketing role – enjoying far more civilized working hours. However, working in retail as I did, I was never a “big earner” While I tried to repay my student debt, the small payments I could afford made very little inroads.

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Debt Finds Debt Free Pay Off Debt 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 4, 2016

Some folks persist in activities and thoughts that keep them in poverty such as overspending or lack of desire to do what it takes (such as working for money or denying themselves current rewards). Eventually, they will seek out information and perhaps even assistance in learning to manage the wealth they have worked so hard to achieve.

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Goals Friends And Family Sale Money Activism 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 14, 2012

The Debt Princess: The Kool-Aid Effect: The Relationship Between the Poor & Nutrition – A look into how the working poor are eating unhealthy. This nurse spent her career working with people who were dying, beyond recovery, and aware of it. Her job, primarily, was to provide comfort, whether that be physical or emotional.

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Credit Cards Credit Finance Personal Finance 220