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Go Green This Halloween

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We do put up decorations (ones I buy at garage sales or thrift stores and reuse each year). Tip # 2 Recycle/reuse costumes. Use the pulp for pumpkin bread, cookies, pies, soups and more. Compost it by cutting it up and putting it on the pile. Like me, buy them used and then reuse them each year.

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Meet a Reader | JenRR from the Midwest

The Frugal Girl

I save money where I can, reusing old food containers for my multitude of seasonal seedlings, getting free five-gallon buckets from the bakery to use for extra growing space, making compost from our fruit and vegetable scraps, and starting almost everything from seed. Purple raspberries from my garden. It’s now up to $11 per loaf!

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Using Kids Crafts to Teach the Gift of Giving

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Petroleum jelly to slather on the inside of the mold, so you can get the concrete out and reuse the mold. How to Compost Without Fancy Equipment Guest Post Author Bio: Bailey writes about insurance and other topics for the Homeowners Insurance Blog.Basically there are two reasons to. Pretty things to embed in the wet cement.

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