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Meet a Reader | Jennifer from Arkansas

The Frugal Girl

Used bookstores, fair trade products, and locally sourced food/baskets/pottery are favorites, in addition to monthly outings with my kids. There’s always been garage sales/flea markets, library, state parks, fishing. Similar to many others, we pack snacks & cook on trips. Do I know where it went? Heavens, no.

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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. Peggy: Oh yes! Peggy : You bet it was, but it was better than doing without.

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