Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 6, 2011

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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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

First I looked online to see what the average cost of re-upholstery services were. Then I visited the local fabric store and a hobby store to see what upholstery fabric selections there were and how much it ran. After poking around on You Tube, looking at how-to videos on re-upholstery, I decided that, hey, I could do this.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Have you ever shopped at neighborhood garage sales? I’ve used these finds to help furnish and decorate a vacation rental and to fill in pieces we lacked at home. Some folks view re-decorating as a hobby. The post Should You Spend Your Money on Home Re-Decorating? ” What is the cost?

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 3, 2013

Clothing is cheap, sewing is not. We tend to throw away clothing instead of mending it and we count on cheap overseas labor to keep manufactured clothing easily affordable. As a hobby. I got 160,000,000 results today using Google Chrome. Perhaps something that gave you a marketable skill instead of a hobby skill?

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 29, 2011

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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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 14, 2012

This is not something I want to see, so today I have a few videos for you that will dispell credit card myths, teach you how to use them properly, how to keep them safe, and how to make sure you should be getting credit in the first place. Take a moment to watch them. You might just learn something. However, times have changed.

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