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How Little Could You Spend on Your Child in a Year?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Many of the other items I needed like cloth diapers and clothes for the baby in bigger sizes I bought from garage sales. Babies grow so quickly that their babies only wore some outfits for a time or two before they outgrew them, so the clothes looked like new. We Love to Spend Money on Our Children. It turns out, quite easily.

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Canning CAN Be Cheap!

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Never try to use non-canning jars to preserve your food – doing so could lead to dangerous (invisible) bacteria growing in your food. I have found that garage sales , flea markets , estate sales or Mom/Grandma’s basement are the best places to score a great deal on used canning jars.

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An Easy Way to Save for Irregular Expenses

For the Mommas

Yard Sales. Yard sale season is just beginning, so you have plenty of time to organize your own sale. Designate an area of your home for gathering all of your yard sale wares together and add pricing stickers as you go so that you don’t have to worry about pricing everything on the day of the sale.

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Ways To Reuse Old Items For Your Container Garden

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

One of the more interesting ways to garden is to grow items in containers. You might be surprised at the types of plants you can grow in a container garden. From using espaliering to grow apple trees in a container, to herbs, to a variety of vegetables , it’s possible to transform a small space into an effective container garden.

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