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Spring Cleaning Tasks to Get a Head Start On

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Even re-organizing the garage can leave you with a chill. If you plan to re-organize your closet and drawers, take the opportunity to go through your clothing and sort it into “keep”, “discard” and “donate” piles. Donate the items you no longer want to keep. Wipe Down the Walls.

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Day 2 of 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending: Organize your kitchen pantry

Family Balance Sheet

I have another cabinet that is not in the photo where I keep coffee & tea and I store our bread in the appliance garage with the toaster. Place the coffee by the machine. Donate any food that you probably won’t eat (and is not outdated) to a food bank. As you see in the photo below, I have a very limited pantry.

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7 Steps to an Organized Pantry | Kitchen Economics

Family Balance Sheet

We don't have a pantry closet, so I use several cupboards in my kitchen for food storage and some shelves in my garage for any overflow. My coffee is stored right by the machine and all of my baking supplies are stored right above the counter where I use my mixer. I don't keep a large stockpile, because of my lack of storage space.

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"Potential Accomplishments" and The Natural Magic of List-Making: Creating a Master~List

Frugal Luxuries

moving the sewing machine to the spare room (I hope to set up a separate area in there, once it's been thoroughly de-cluttered and reorganized).painting moving the sewing machine to the spare room (I hope to set up a separate area in there, once it's been thoroughly de-cluttered and reorganized).painting the carpet. the carpet.

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Meet a Reader | Mbmom11, in the Midwest

The Frugal Girl

If I could spend it without strings, I might just donate it to a food pantry. He got his roofing urges out when he build our garage last year though!) I have tried homemade laundry detergent and abandoned it – time consuming and it didn’t work well in my machine. So if it’s income, I would turn it down.