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How to Establish an Eco-Friendly Lifestyle at Home

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

People lived happy and healthy lives before the advent of the huge range of cleaning products that currently adorn our supermarket shelves; their clothes, bodies and homes were perfectly clean as well. Cook at home using fresh ingredients – home-cooked food is generally healthier, more nutritious, less fattening and uses less energy.

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Look Hot and Stay Fit on a Busy Schedule

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The best meals and snacks are those you make at home because you can control what goes into them. I know you’re busy, but cooking at home is really beneficial for you and your family, on many levels, so try and rearrange your schedule to fit this in as often as you can. Get the whole family involved in meal preparation.

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How this Couple Eliminated $180,000 of Debt in 12 Months!

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It started with $40,000 in consumer debt (vehicles, credit cards, small student loan) and then sold our home and eliminated the $140,000 of mortgage debt. No new clothes, no vacation, no extra anything. We started cooking at home more, a big issue for us was eating out. Jones” 2. What kind of debt was it?

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Interview with a Self-Made Millionaire

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We shopped at garage sales, turned down the heat, combined errands to use less gas, didn’t buy a lot of prepared food, cooked at home and the like. We mowed the grass, made our clothes, cleaned house, cooked , and fixed broken stuff. We didn’t have a clothes dryer. Peggy: Oh yes! That took forever!

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