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Meet a Reader | JenRR from the Midwest

The Frugal Girl

After I became a mother, finances became much more complicated. I save money where I can, reusing old food containers for my multitude of seasonal seedlings, getting free five-gallon buckets from the bakery to use for extra growing space, making compost from our fruit and vegetable scraps, and starting almost everything from seed.

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Using Kids Crafts to Teach the Gift of Giving

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Your kids have been to camp, done baseball and goofed off to their hearts content. Each year I try to help my kids teach their kids about personal finance. We have a week long Grandma Money Camp during which we have activities, games, books, movies and lessons about things related to personal finance. Driving across.

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Apply Minimalist Principles to Your Life, and Reap the Financial Benefits

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

When people think of minimalism, they often picture families living an almost zero-waste lifestyle, meticulously composting and recycling so they only have a single bag of trash per year. It’s possible for you to improve your finances by grasping a few of the basic tenets of minimalism and adapting them to your situation.

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