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Start Planning and Budgeting for Summer TODAY!

Family Balance Sheet

Visit a State Park – Do you like to picnic, hike, swim, camp, bike, bird watch, canoe, fish, and spend your free time exploring the great outdoors? Local fairs & festivals – Look for local fairs and festivals for low-cost games, food, and activities. Summer Food: Our diet changes over the summer.

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Summer Fun Guide 2019

Family Balance Sheet

Visit a State Park – Do you like to picnic, hike, swim, camp, bike, bird watch, canoe, fish, and spend your free time exploring the great outdoors? The initial kit includes the mesh garden and a voucher to order the caterpillars and food separately. Summer Food: Our diet changes over the summer. 40 Summer Desserts.

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50 Best Small-Business Ideas – NerdWallet

Savings Corner

Food truck Food trucks are hugely popular, often offering unique, specialty foods that often wouldn’t sell as easily in brick-and-mortar restaurants. Although you will need some funding to get this kind of endeavor started, it will certainly be a lesser-lift than some other food-service businesses.

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A Matter of Perspective

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In the movie Ratatouille, the food critic Anton Ego, said: “After reading a lot of overheated puffery about your new cook, you know what I’m craving? I’d like some fresh, clear, well seasoned perspective. , go find a hill that lets you look out over a distance, then let your thoughts wander over the landscape.

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Meet a Reader | Biker Liz

The Frugal Girl

Limiting waste is what really drives most of the habits I have that would qualify as “frugal” – reducing/eliminating food waste, returning unneeded items, pursuing refunds, checking on warranties, repairing things, etc. For me, being in the kitchen and making food for people is an act of love.

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How to Start a Budget (and be successful at it!)

Family Balance Sheet

Food: groceries, meals out, school lunches. How to Watch Great TV without Cable – We were able to cut $50/month by giving up cable, yet we still watch great TV. Non-necessity/extra (can survive without, but nice to have). The grocery category is the easiest one to reduce.

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Control Your Bagworms – Economically and Organically

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Bagworms can wipe out your expensive evergreen landscaping in a single season if left uncontrolled. If you own a home and have landscaped with juniper, arborvitae, spruce, pine or cedar, don’t let the bagworms cost you a fortune. They never check to watch for problems and soon there are little sacs hanging from the bushes.