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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I give away perfectly good electronics because they are ‘out of date’ – they don’t work with new software.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 was a trained radio and TV repairman, when those had tubes.

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Growing up in the 1950?s

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Most cars did not have radios, non had any other kind of electronics. People listened to the radio, watched TV, went to the local (one screen) movie house or entertained themselves. My radio was AM only. Dad used a ham radio to talk to other ham operators. Cars did not have safety belts. Entertainment. Go Frugal'

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