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Christmas Gifts on a Budget: Up-cycling is the Answer

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Cover thrift store finds such as boxes and crates with dish shards for an awesome magazine rack. Cover a small picture frame with your gift recipient’s initials or spell out a phrase on a repurposed painted trinket box, using a hot glue gun to attach the keys. Related posts: Frugal and Personal Birthday Gifts.

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Update - The Shopping Ban (Jan- the end of Feb 2010)

Work With What You've Got

I don’t browse sites, other than a little browsing done to pick out a birthday handbag, and even that little bit made it harder. Actually, not looking is almost as hard as not buying, but looking would make not buying impossible. I don’t get a lot of down time (no one gets enough, am I right?) and I hate to waste it. So that’s where I’m at.

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