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Yes Virginia, There is a Money Tree

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The proverbial saying ‘money doesn’t grow on trees’ is used by many a parent in denying some wished for item to their children. Well, kids, your parents lied to you – money does grow on trees. A money tree starts out growing slowly, so small at first that you don’t even think it is there.

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Embrace the Negative!

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Was it the times you were flush with money or the times you were dirt poor and had to make do? As a parent, your expectations of your growing child increase month by month and year by year. You know that you are going to grow when things go wrong. Free money! When he is 16, you teach him to drive.

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

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In it she reminisces about growing up poor in the Great Smokey mountains in East Tennessee. Dad grew up on his parent’s farm with a wood stove, an outhouse and kerosene lamps. But I never felt poor growing up. One of their uncles played a joke on them and told them that they could ‘grow’ a pony.

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