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Six Ways to Reuse Your Plastic Grocery Bags

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

You can even save a few plastic grocery bags and reuse them at your local farmer’s market or grocery store. Clothing Bags If you donate clothing to your local thrift stores , then these bags can help you out. Call to Action Do you reuse your grocery bags? They are useful carry bags in general.

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Go Green This Halloween

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We do put up decorations (ones I buy at garage sales or thrift stores and reuse each year). Tip # 2 Recycle/reuse costumes. Buy one then sell, donate or exchange it. Like me, buy them used and then reuse them each year. Put your unwanted Halloween decorations out for reuse by donating them.

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Am I Frugal – or Cheap?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Plus, the styles that fit are usually made by the high end manufacturers and carried in exclusive (expensive) clothing stores. There is a lovely thrift store not far from my neighborhood that receives donations from the folks in the local golfing gated community. I wash and reuse freezer bags. Cheap or frugal?

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My 2020 Financial Goals & A Recap of 2019

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I feel like I made a lot of trips to the thrift store to donate our stuff, but my house will tell you otherwise. That book has changed my outlook on reusing, recycling, making do, and rethinking one use products. It was a long road and we were finally non-mortgage debt FREE!! 2 – Reduce our clutter.