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3 Vital Tips You Need to Start a Frugal Lifestyle

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Even if you are practicing a frugal lifestyle, it is good to give yourself a break occasionally. Instead of using expensive beauty products, why not opt for homemade products? Since these ingredients have been used for hundreds of years, you can depend on their effectiveness. Deciding to start a frugal life is a huge step.

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Tips for a Frugal and Eco-Friendly Spring

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

And with spring time comes spring cleaning, the chance to de-clutter your house, get rid of the belongings you no longer have use for and freshen up the old place. But the cost of cleaning products and the chemicals used in many of them means that spring cleaning can come at a cost to both you and the environment.

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Interview with a Self-Made Millionaire

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

For so long, we plodded along with next to nothing while our neighbors were running up their charge cards and using home equity loans to take vacations. We shopped at garage sales, turned down the heat, combined errands to use less gas, didn’t buy a lot of prepared food, cooked at home and the like. Peggy: Oh yes!

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