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Do You Know a Millionaire Garage Sale-er?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

A lot of us frequent garage sales. But once you have made your millions – would you still go garage sale-ing? Why would a millionaire want to continue to shop at garage sales? Garage sales are one of the few USA venues where negotiation on the price of goods to be bought is expected.

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Don’t be a Buy-It-New Snob

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Are you a ‘buy it new’ snob – one of those people who shudder at the thought of using someone else’s cast off stuff? After 10 years of not having enough money to buy new things, I found my dream job and started getting high pay. I paid hundreds for a slightly better model at Best Buy years ago.

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Make Your Own Board Game

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Because just deciding to have a business, or buy a bunch of empty toothpaste tubes to fill (or whatever the decision might be), doesn’t mean that you will actually make any money, I knew that I needed the winner to have to meet a certain profit goal. Next I made a brown paper hand drawn mat to use as a game board.

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Things You Can Do To NOT Make Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I’m not sure I have the greatest answer to that, but here are some things we tried that did NOT work out for us – at all. This was hubby’s hobby, but I thought maybe we could sell the birds (quail is good eating!). It kept me busy and out of trouble, used up a lot of stamp money, but never yielded a dime.

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Should You Learn To Sew?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

As a hobby. I got 160,000,000 results today using Google Chrome. Home decorating is another area where it may be possible to sew your own cheaper than buying. Easy deal and much cheaper than buying drapes at the time. You had to earn the money to buy the machine and other equipment needed, more time taken.

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Collecting – Tips for Fun and Profit

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

However, she enjoyed her hobby immensely and kept right on collecting things of interest to her. Like anything else, you make your money when you buy, not when you sell. Buy pieces only in great condition. He used that book to find original, instead of reproduction helmets. Know current trends. Also, keep the box!

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Meet Amanda & Daniel. They Paid Off $68,000 in Debt in 8 Months.

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Tell us about you and your family. What are your hobbies? Daniel can work anywhere there is an internet connection and the kids can homeschool anywhere, but we didn’t have the money to buy the plane tickets or book AirBnB apartments. We sold extra items that we weren’t using through Craigslist and garage sales.

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