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Ways to Make Do With What You Have

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you can’t afford a car, use public transportation. If you can’t afford a gift, make or do something for the recipient. If you can’t afford air-conditioning, consider a ceiling or attic fan as an alternative. Our parents and grandparents were ‘green’ before green was cool.

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Bee Stung Butts, Freeze Dried Diapers and Other Hilarious Happenings of Poverty

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Today a poor person in America probably has access to electricity, telephones, food, indoor plumbing, central heat and public transportation. Dad grew up on his parent’s farm with a wood stove, an outhouse and kerosene lamps. Plus, it can be really inconvenient to “make do or do without!” Inconvenient!

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