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How To Re-use Common Items

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Glass jars can be used for jelly and canning things like pickles. Plastic bags are used as trash can liners, food carriers on trips, package stuffing for shipping and re-wrapping precious Christmas keepsakes for storage. Clothing and Linens. They fit nicely into ice chests and won’t break. Small Utility Items.

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Is Self-Sufficiency Possible in the 21st Century?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

You use your time gardening or tending animals, canning, plowing or digging wells and you aren’t going to have time to go to the higher paying job. You can’t really trade a couple of chickens for a solar panel to get electricity. Food that can survive without power and is easily prepared. Extra clothes & shoes.

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