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5 Budget Friendly Ways to Bring More Life to Your Apartment

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Before you start shopping around for ideas, it is a good idea to set a realistic budget. If you are budgeting for furniture and appliances, your may have more creativity than cash. Savvy decorators can give a living room or bedroom a makeover with a budget as small as $500. Budget and Kid Friendly Fun.

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Declutter Update #1

Family Balance Sheet

I found myself feeling suffocated by our home, my schedule, my diet, our budget, and my mind, so I’m focusing on decluttering in 2014 and hopefully by the end of the year, I’ll feel much freer and less stressed. I don’t print too many photos anymore, so many of these photos were pre-2000, before the age of digital.

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10 Tips to Create the Perfect Nursery on a Budget

Saving Cents With Sense

Buy a dated, smooth-gliding rocker at a garage sale for next to nothing and customize it with several yards of fabric and a staple gun. Instead, go online or to an outlet and purchase last year’s prints at a reduced cost. The post 10 Tips to Create the Perfect Nursery on a Budget appeared first on Saving Cents With Sense.

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30 Free but Thoughtful Christmas Gift Ideas

Family Balance Sheet

Not everyone is and professional sessions don’t always fit into people’s budgets. If so, give the gift of organizing a closet (or 2), kitchen cupboards, a basement, garage, etc. My handwriting is atrocious and to professionally print all of those addresses would have been costly. Give a Photo Session. Baked Goods.

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30 Free but Thoughtful Christmas Gift Ideas

Family Balance Sheet

Not everyone is and professional sessions don’t always fit into people’s budgets. If so, give the gift of organizing a closet (or 2), kitchen cupboards, a basement, garage, etc. If you have a printer and some unused frames, print some FREE wall art that I found on Pinterest. Give a Photo Session. Are you a gardener?

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6 Ways an i-Phone Can Save You Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

No more forgetting to grab the coupons on your way to the store or wasting time and paper printing coupons out only so the store can throw them away. With PrimoSpot you can enter the address of the place you are planning to go and have it search for on-street parking, garage parking, and bike racks.

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Make Your Own Board Game

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The year before, after all, I successfully made up a role playing game to reinforce the idea of budgets and household cash flow. There are sites that have templates you can fill in and print to make board games too, but they didn’t suit my needs. I just printed them out on my ink jet home printer. Play test the game.

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