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How To Organize A Project

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Pretend that the project is a manual, guide, or a long document of some sort. Copy and paste links into a document. More often than not, if I tell myself that I’ll remember something instead of writing it down, I’ll forget it and be kicking myself for not putting the idea on paper.

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How to Make a Two Dollar Seventy Five Cent Centerpiece

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

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. To start, I made a sample bottle as proof of concept using images printed on matte photo paper. They had black paper flocked with a scroll design that looked elegant.

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Make Your Own Board Game

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Next I made a brown paper hand drawn mat to use as a game board. I keep a roll of heavy paper (which I buy at Home Depot for about $11 for a roll about 2 inches thick and 2 feet wide) to use in wrapping packages, protecting floors during home projects, making garage sale signs and etc. Play test the game.

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