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5 Backyard Activities for Affordable Family Fun

Couponing 101

In fact, your own backyard can become an exciting destination. Fun backyard activities abound, and you don’t have to spend much money to enjoy them. These five affordable family fun activities can turn your backyard into a wonderful summer escape. Even the planning process can become a fun family activity.

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My Backyard Compost

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The compost needs moisture to help speed up the process. Now that the weather has warmed up, I take a garden fork and turn the pile every time I add to the compost. I am also turning the pile that I am curing right now. The moisture level should be that of a damp, wrung-out sponge.

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Tips for Finding the Right Paver Installation Contractor

Koupon Karen

Installing pavers in your backyard is the best way to enhance your home exterior’s curb appeal. You also need to understand the coverage of the materials, workmanship, and the process of any post-installation issues. However, the challenges arise when you need to hire the best contractor to do the job.

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How to Save Cash and Your Health With a Garden

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

More and more people like myself are returning to the joy of growing vegetables, herbs and even eggs right in their own backyards. Fifty years ago, this was the norm; almost every backyard had a veggie patch that supplemented the food bought at a store. And don’t get me started on the sugar, salt and fat content of processed food!

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What Features Are Most Important When Buying (and Selling) a House?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

During the home search process and through countless discussions with our realtor, we learned what features are most important when buying a house. The final reason why we chose our house is because it had one of the biggest backyards we saw when house hunting, and there were no other houses behind it. bought our first home.

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4 Hobbies for Adulthood

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The process of trying out a new hobby can be an enjoyable experience in its own right, even if it doesn’t stick in the long run. Whether you simply want to venture from the daily routine, stop watching so much TV, or you just need to save money by not going out, it’s never too late to pick up a new hobby.

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Refurbishing a Filing Cabinet

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I need to be able to see/hear/know what my kids are up to, especially during the summer months when they are outside playing in the backyard. I''m in the process of cleaning out my old filing cabinet and my plan is to downsize my paper files to just the top drawer of the new cabinet. That''s hard to do from the basement.