Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 4, 2013

I love going to garage sales. I brought that wheel barrow home for hubby. I took it apart (which took about an hour) and am stripping the paint off the iron (think at least one can of paint stripper) and then will spray with Rust-oleum – and I just found out that the cans I thought I had had been used on lamps!

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Garage Lamps Garage Sale Free 200

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Home decor, costumes for the kiddies (and adults!), Once the kids left home, we ended up with zero trick or treaters at our house on a state highway. Once the kids left home, we ended up with zero trick or treaters at our house on a state highway. What are the typical essentials? pumpkins, haunted houses and parties abound.

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Halloween Green Reuse Garage 138

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 3, 2014

Fashion changes and new or nearly new clothing gets sold at sales or donated to charity. Home owners get bored and re-decorate or re-vamp their homes. Neighborhood sales are my favorite, and they are prolific in spring and fall. I didn’t have to do a thing to these pieces except get them home and hose them off.

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Buy Buying Garage Sale Garage 178

Couponing 101

APRIL 14, 2019

Think of all the other animals you can paint on it! Via Goods Home Design. Via The Homes I Have Made. You can check out garage sales as well if you don’t have any old pots and pans. Via Hey There Home. This is a super easy way to upgrade a boring old tire swing! Water Pillow. Bookcase Sandbox. Music Wall.

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Backyard Kids Pottery Barn Outdoors 74

Family Balance Sheet

MAY 24, 2011

I painted it and added some fun baskets to it for organizing as well. The picnic basket in the middle was an estate sale find and the little one on top.came from a garage sale. You can find Liz over at Hoosier Homemade where she cooks , bakes and decorates your home. Do you see the Baker's Rack in the picture too?

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Swap Organic Organization Homemade 138

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 11, 2016

Whether you are just starting out; wanting to freshen up your own older items; or furnishing a second home, furniture buying can make a big dent in your budget. Garage sale and thrift store furniture bargains abound. It had way too many coats of paint on it to ever be pretty again otherwise. Ways to save on furniture.

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Re-use Used Furniture Furniture Recycle 100

Couponing 101

DECEMBER 6, 2011

What I especially love about it is that it can be a very inexpensive way to decorate your home for the seasons! Just find a cute printable, pop it in a cheap frame (check Goodwill, garage sales, your attic, etc. and spray paint the frame to match!), Cheap home decor! maybe add a little embellishment, and voila!

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Subway Art DIY Christmas 70

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 23, 2015

I keep a roll of heavy paper (which I buy at Home Depot for about $11 for a roll about 2 inches thick and 2 feet wide) to use in wrapping packages, protecting floors during home projects, making garage sale signs and etc. I just printed them out on my ink jet home printer. Play test the game.

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Games Making Garage Sale Kids and Family 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 3, 2011

While we understand that many property owners do not allow tenants to paint with the latest trending colors, it is still possible to add some spice and texture to your home. You can visit garage sales, local flea markets and scratch and dent stores to locate used furniture that needs to be refurbished.

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Budgeting Budget Friends And Family Sale Furniture 255

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 11, 2014

For awhile, there was a trend called ‘Shabby Chic’ Old wooden furniture, painted white – with crackled or chipped finishes – were highly regarded by collectors and decorators. Paintings, as we all know from watching the Road Show, sometimes gain value when properly cleaned and brightened. Some were wrapped in plastic wrap.

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Collectibles Repairs Aunt Garage 170

Saving Cents With Sense

MARCH 30, 2015

Whether you are browsing at a local thrift shop, flea market, garage sale, or just perusing your own garage or basement, we all seem to have an abundance of them! This is a cool trick and all you need is some chalkboard paint. Paint your frame the color of your choice or leave plain. Allow to dry and reassemble.

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Painting Garage Inexpensive Frugal Lives 40

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

As a child and teen, I painted (inside and out), mowed and trimmed, punched holes in concrete to install decorate iron railings, worked with hand and power tools and helped my parents do everything from putting up a garage to putting up storm windows. Yet, over the years, I kept discovering new things about home ownership.

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Home Washer and Dryer Do It Yourself Garage 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

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.

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Thrifty Garage Spendthrift Fair-Trade 213

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 4, 2016

Keeping your standard of living the same while income increases to generate extra saving potential (such as eating at home instead of in restaurants or fast food joints each week). Buying personal finance books at garage sales and reading them one after another to make sure you have a basis of knowledge on money management.

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Goals Friends And Family Sale Money Activism 100