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Repair, Don’t Replace

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I give away perfectly good electronics because they are ‘out of date’ – they don’t work with new software. You could take your radio to the radio and TV repair shop down the street, but most things you could probably fix yourself. He built his own garage. He made his own electric lawnmower.

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Growing up in the 1950?s

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

riding lawn mowers, garage door openers and many, many more things we take for granted today. Ours was smaller (about 700 square feet) – 2 bedrooms (my brother and I shared one and my parents the other), a kitchen and a living room, No basement or garage. There were no garage door openers. My radio was AM only.

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