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Save Money With DIY Home Repairs

Saving Cents With Sense

Filters are a relatively easy and inexpensive do-it-yourself maintenance item most homeowners can buy and replace themselves. The post Save Money With DIY Home Repairs appeared first on Saving Cents With Sense. Frugal home improvement' ©2009-13 Saving Cents with Sense ™, a website of Saving Sense Media LLC.

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Thankful Thursday | heating issues

The Frugal Girl

This week, I am thankful: for kind people who let us borrow space heaters I already had one from my Buy Nothing group, but I also got to borrow one from my landlord and two from neighbors. that I am not responsible for home repair bills While I was in Hawaii a branch fell onto my roof and poked a hole.

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Meet a Reader | Gretchen from Oregon

The Frugal Girl

Another, very important frugal win, my very frugal husband who’s a natural saver and set us up for success by buying his first house (a foreclosed property) at 28. I can’t resist buying them high-quality, special presents for their birthdays and adoption day celebrations. I dread the day we need to buy a new vehicle.

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Tips For Keeping Home Plumbing Repair Costs At A Minimum

Saving Cents With Sense

For example, set the timer on your thermostat so that you do not pay to cool the house while nobody is at home to enjoy that expensive, cold air. Another example is to start buying monthly public transportation passes instead of paying to fill up the gas tank of your car. Frugal frugal living home repair plumbing tips'

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The Danger In Assuming

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

To buy a home under the assumption that you’ll some day make a profit from it or rely on one source of income assuming it’ll always be available to you is financially foolish. They can come in the form of a health scare a home repair or otherwise. Unfortunately the recession of 2008 was not an isolated incident.

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Home Renovation Techniques

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Every homeowner knows that renovations and home repairs are necessary to keep the home in tiptop shape. While this reality is an accepted fact, some people do not want to have large expenses when it comes to home maintenance and renovation.

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Can You Cut Expenses by a Half Million Dollars?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Using only our last two houses, and calculating on cleanings weekly, we saved $200 a month for 10 years and on our larger home, $300 a month for 20 years for a total of $96,000. 40,720 Home Repair. Do it yourself home repair can really go either way. You may be thinking ‘foul’!