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Tips for Keeping Your Stockpile Safe and Dry

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Here are some smart tips for safeguarding the stockpile of goods you have painstakingly put together. For those with impressive stockpiles, having a separate building seems to work best. Steel buildings have traditionally been used by disaster preppers, couponers, and others who need space to store large collections of items.

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How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt

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How we got to six figures of non-mortgage debt: In the summer of 2012, we found an opportunity to purchase an office building for our small business. We had been renting for over 10 years and we were ready to find a property to move our business to and eventually build our net worth. Everything looked great on paper.

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Things You Can Do To NOT Make Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Good financial planning calls for not only saving money, but also building multiple streams of income for yourself. We converted the non-working shower off our bedroom into the incubator/baby quail chick spot. It was great fun watching the eggs hatch and seeing the baby chicks run around. This post was written by Marie. .

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What Makes a Saver?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Once baby comes, we might become major spenders on toys, a new home, a bigger car and more. As baby grows, we might turn back into fiendish savers – trying to get that retirement fund or college fund built up. I also saved – maxing out 401K contributions to build up the retirement funds. Time of life.

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Meet a Reader | Biker Liz

The Frugal Girl

I don’t have to drive my kids everywhere, which means I have more time to do things like cook or projects around the house, or volunteer (and build connections) in my community. Do you have any tips for frugal travel or vacations? What frugal tips have you tried and abandoned? Hosting garage sales & reselling items.

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Things I’ve Learned During 30 + Years of Home Ownership

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I’ve been a homeowner since 1978, when we bought our fixer upper little ranch house when our second baby was 6 months old. When I go to garage sales, I see folks selling nearly new home decorations for a pittance. I thought I knew all about keeping a house. Yet, over the years, I kept discovering new things about home ownership.

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

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

They were building their house and did it as they could afford to add on. Mom and Dad always pointed out how much better off we were than our neighbors, because we were saving money and building up assets. I ended up freeze drying them in the garage! Money Tips' They did end up with three stories. Inconvenient!

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