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Cheap Ways To Renovate Your Home

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Save on certain services by doing it yourself. Typically, you don’t have much wall space to paint in a bathroom after installing the mirrors, shower, tiles, and bathroom cabinets. Try painting it yourself instead of hiring a painter. You can also install the tile flooring yourself if the floor area is small.

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10 Family-Friendly Halloween Activities

Couponing 101

Pumpkin Painting or Pumpkin Carving. This is a staple of Halloween for most people, but I know many others who don’t do it every year. Try something new with the carving or painting! Painting pumpkins is a great sensory activity too! These are great to do together as a family! Spider Ice Cubes.

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Save Money With DIY Home Repairs

Saving Cents With Sense

However, there are many home maintenance and repair tasks that most people can handle, and doing it yourself can save lots of money while improving the appearance and comfort of your home. According to HomeAdvisor, the average national cost of painting a home exterior is almost $3,000 and $986 to install a door.

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

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you are going to attempt do it yourself upholstery, I recommend getting a tack puller and a staple gun that will be fairly easy shoot staples with and that will handle longer, thinner upholstery staples. The toy ice cream table and chairs from my Mom’s childhood have an iron frame, which I stripped and spray painted.

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Should You Spend Your Money on Home Re-Decorating?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

How often do people redo their rooms? Well, I had to research this one as I’ve lived in the same home for 26 years now and have only changed out the paint once (repairing all those holes the kids put in the walls with their dart boards!) and still have the wedding furniture we bought 44 years ago! ” What is the cost?

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D.I.Y. Weekly: Easy Screen Printing

Cheap Chica's Guide To Style

In this new weekly feature, we’ll help you save even more money but showing you some easy and fashionable Do-It-Yourself ideas (including a step-by-step guide for your DIY virgins!) Opaque Fabric Paint. Leave about 3 inches around each side so you have room to paint. Fill in the letters with opaque fabric paint.

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Project Made Simple & Walmart $50.00 Giveaway (5 Winners)

For the Mommas

Most of these updates we could do ourselves. After all, we only needed to strip the 30 year old wallpaper and paint, rip up the floor and install new floor tile, install a new faucet and vanity, and add new towel bar. Leave a comment here sharing a Do -It- Yourself Tip. This project was going to be short and simple!

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