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How to Make a Two Dollar Seventy Five Cent Centerpiece

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The family honored her with a family and friends celebration in the Missouri History Museum. My sister-in-law did most of the planning, but I volunteered to help. I already had saved up a box full of wine bottles, in hopes of selling them at my next garage sale, so we didn’t have any cash outlay for those.

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How To Get The Holiday Gifts You Really Want

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

So, you just keep it, crammed into the closet, back in the darkest corner of the deepest shelf – where it won’t be found until your kids hold the estate sale after you die! It is so easy to accumulate stuff and sometimes so hard to get rid of it (sell it, give it away or even throw it away). But how can they do that? Not necessarily.

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Naomi’s Christmas: Restorative Aloneness And A Childhood Spent In Retail

For the Mommas

Time moves more slowly when I’m alone, and it’s a very rare treat. And I so needed this time alone. And I so needed this time alone. I’ve got a lot to do, and it will get done, but it’s much more than that. Aging hasn’t dimmed my memories; au contraire, it has sharpened up the important ones and blurred the trivial.