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Things You Can Do To NOT Make Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Enter Contests and Giveaways. Hubby used to be way into contests and giveaways. He spent hours, days, weeks, months and several years filling out 3 x 5 index cards to submit multiple entries to various contests. He bought newsletters that had contests to enter in them and spent a bunch of postage money to mail off the entries.

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Build Memories and Spend Less on Your Grandchildren this Summer

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Make puppets and stage a show for the parents – letting the kids come up with the story line, the kind of puppets they want to make, the puppet stage (it can be as simple as an ironing board with a tablecloth over it!). Hold a garage sale together. Have a hula hoop contest. See who can hula the longest.