Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

You don’t have to contend with deciding which bill to pay or how to avoid a debt collector’s call or trying to keep the landlord off your back. If you plan to donate it, will the organization use it for the purpose you intended, or spend it on perks for their employees? You won’t become a different person.

Money 247

Money Grandchildren Thrifty Job Loss 247

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 1, 2015

There is a lovely thrift store not far from my neighborhood that receives donations from the folks in the local golfing gated community. I demonstrate making these things to my children and grandchildren, though, just to show that it can be done. Your comments are appreciated! Am I being cheap or frugal?

Frugal 100

Frugal Cheap Clothes Clothing 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Although he is single and lives alone, he has a decades long friendship with a woman and has come to be considered a pseudo Dad and Grandpa by her children and grandchildren, but he has no legal relationship with any of them to my knowledge. He has spoken of donating to science, but has a burial plot and engraved stone already in place.

Grandchildren 162

Grandchildren Brother Aunt Donation 162