Saving With Shellie

JUNE 28, 2016

This will make doing your own nails super easy and simple! These would make great gifts and come in three colors: Bright Blue. Find more Great Deals happening now. Don’t miss any of these fabulous finds! How cool is this Silicone Nail Polish Holder for just $6.99?! Bright Pink. Mint Green.

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Painting Making Do Simple Green 45

Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 11, 2020

We were privileged to be able to do so for a few months but we must stop this for the unforeseeable future. This is not an elective, fun, no-spend month like what we did in January to find funds for our summer vacation. Stop all non-essential spending–cold turkey. April will be a “we might not have an income” month.

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Budget Budgeting Family Debt 246

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 13, 2011

Here are some suggestions you might find useful: It Starts With The Choice of Credit Card. To take this to another level, be aware of the company with whom you’re doing business, and choose a credit card lender that practices good green behavior and puts the environment first. Save The Trees.

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Credit Cards Credit Environmental Groups Paperless 165

Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 26, 2016

SO THIS WILL BE THE YEAR…YAY… WOOHOO… BUT……in order to reach our goal by the end of the year, we need to find/earn more money than we currently are able to come up with each month. The goal is to reduce our monthly spending where we can to find extra money to apply to our debt. I think I’ll survive.

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Financial Goals Goals 2016 Debt 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 31, 2014

Was it the times you were flush with money or the times you were dirt poor and had to make do? When you were young, you didn’t know the consequences that occur when you leave your allowance laying around, until you want to spend it and can’t find it. No one likes painful situations, but they can be useful.

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Debt College Student Money 167

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Put your roots into healthy soil and suck up the best nutrients you can find. Learn from books but learn from doing and observing as well. We don’t panic because we know we can make do with out the investment money. Mentally, physically and spiritually.

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Virginia Money Real Estate Growing 160

Saving With Shellie

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

I do my best to find deals and using P&G coupons, I usually don’t have to pay full price. But for those of you doing 12, 14 and 17 loads it won’t last quite as long! But hey, six bottles of free detergent almost makes doing laundry bearable! I admit I’m a Tide snob. Mmmm, love that scent!

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Tide Giveaway Clothes Clothing 74

The Bargain Hunter Extraordinaire

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

I love reading her wonderful blog every day- especially her Vintage Find of the Day (she finds the best stuff)! you guys are amazing and make doing my blog so enjoyable, so I thank you from the bottom of my heart! So, thank you again, Jessica. you are beyond fantastic!

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Fair-Trade Fantastic Mother's Fridays 56

Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 1, 2015

These will continue as long as I can find people don’t mind being open and transparent about their debt free story. If you’ve missed the previous interviews, you can find them HERE. I started the Debt Free Stories interview series back in September and it has been really well received. Choose Thrift First Challenge.

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2015 Money Debt Home and Garden 100

For the Mommas

JANUARY 23, 2013

Do you really need cable television or can you make do without? Is now really the best time to buy that new couch or could you find one for free? This makes it easy for consumers to know where they stand financially, if their identity has been compromised and keep track of what’s reported to the credit bureaus.

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Monitors Credit Debt Consumer 40

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Americans pride themselves on their ‘Yankee ingenuity’ – making do or doing without. Tom Perry (Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles) illustrates the reason they do so: “Independence and self-reliance are critical to our spiritual and temporal growth. As President Heber J.

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Canning At&T Gardening Garden 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 8, 2016

After a number of years of ‘making do or doing without’ a person discovers ways of doing things that work – using minimal resources. Vinegar and water sprayed on the window and wiped dry with old newspapers (if you can still find those) will clean and polish your glass as good as any window cleaner.

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Work Frugal Cleaning Green And Frugal 100

Frugal Luxuries

OCTOBER 1, 2012

I firmly believe there is a kind of a natural magic in list ~ making. need to descale the glass shower doors in master bath using a citric acid solution Continue going through and organizing all my old F rugal Times: Making-Do With Dignity and Frugal Luxuries newsletters along with my collection of vintage ephemera. the carpet.

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Making Home and Garden Craigslist Green And Frugal 40

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 1, 2014

All they had to do was find some pony poop and plant it! Plus, it can be really inconvenient to “make do or do without!” Since we didn’t have a clothes dryer, I had to find some way to get the kid’s cloth diapers dry. Do you have a funny story about making do? Inconvenient!

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St. Louis Plumbing Flowers and Plants Kids and Family 176

Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 17, 2018

However, we could use a year of extra thriftiness to find any extra funds to accelerate the $10k. I want to challenge myself to rethink our purchases by taking advantage of more cost effective solutions, like borrowing, buying second hand, or just making do with what we already have. The Guidelines for 2018: 1.

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Financial Goals Goals 2018 Debt 113