Prairie Eco-Thrifter
OCTOBER 15, 2015
Years ago, Mom introduced me to the idea of going to garage sales. People sell the darnedest things at their garage sales. Garage sales take time, you have to hit quite a few before you find the item you want or need. I look for the neighborhood sales, which are usually either in spring or fall.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
APRIL 23, 2013
I already had saved up a box full of wine bottles, in hopes of selling them at my next garage sale, so we didn’t have any cash outlay for those. To start, I made a sample bottle as proof of concept using images printed on matte photo paper. They had black paper flocked with a scroll design that looked elegant.
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Prairie Eco-Thrifter
MAY 23, 2015
Next I made a brown paper hand drawn mat to use as a game board. 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.
Couponing 101
DECEMBER 8, 2012
This year I headed to Walmart and Target, browsed the 50-70% off clearance, and scored! For their goody bags, I picked up some blue paper lunch bags ($1.89 I decided to check out the arts & crafts section at Walmart to see if I could find a sticker book instead, and I did! Goody Bags. for a 40 pk) at Target.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
Along the way, on one of my garage sale shopping expeditions, I stumbled across a matched pair of wing backs (non-reclining) for $20 each. I found some at Walmart for less than $2 a package. I snapped them up, thinking maybe I could just switch out the old chairs for these newer, nicer looking ones.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
AUGUST 9, 2011
The lady ahead of me in the line at Walmart mentioned that the frozen pretzels she was buying were $3.00 Garage sales – need I say more? My daughter-in-law walked into a furniture store and talked the manager into giving her a 20% off the top discount on all furniture purchased that day – since she was buying a lot.
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