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Used Furniture – Re-purpose, Recycle, Re-use.

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Our home furnishings include many cherished family heirlooms, such as an iron bed my folks bought at a sale, or the hand carved bed frame purchased by my great-grandfather. Often older cloth furniture retains the smells from its prior life. Furniture with cloth components can also harbor things you don’t want to even think about.

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

Makeup, nail polish, and clothes. I haven’t worn makeup in about twenty years or so, I can’t remember the last time I painted my nails, and I detest shopping for clothes. But I had to SHOP for clothes. Cloth diapering. Also, growing our own food. I’d like to grow our own catnip for Mr. Clark!

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