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Do You Save Wrapping? – Thrifty Ways to Wrap Christmas Gifts

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

While I am not that thrifty, and I love prettily wrapped gifts, I don’t like to spend a bunch on wrappings. Shop garage sales and thrift stores and estate sales. She would very carefully (and slowly) unwrap her gifts so as to be able to preserve the paper. Use paper drop cloth to wrap.

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Wait, Don’t Buy That Yet!

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

For many, the end of the year holiday shopping frenzy can override our saner, more thrifty selves. However, I wait until spring and summer to buy decorations – and get them at garage sales. We get desperate to find gifts for everyone on the list. Spending our precious and all too limited time searching online and in stores.

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Don’t be a Buy-It-New Snob

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I used an old seat cushion I had and wrapped it with brand new material from another garage sale to pretty it up and make it softer, then stacked new throw pillows I found at yet another sale for $.50 I used it for years and sold it – for $25 – last summer in my own garage sale. Glass leftover containers 3 for $.75.

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Ways to Make Do With What You Have

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

A good deal on a big bag of fresh lettuce isn’t thrifty if you can’t use it up before it rots. There have been countless times I have seen nearly new, decorator pieces being sold for pennies on the dollar at garage sales because the homeowner decided to re-decorate. Avoid re-decorating your home every few years.

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60+ Frugal Tips To Help You Save Money!

Saving Everyday

by Thrifty Jinxy. 10 Cheap Camping Ideas – Tips for an Inexpensive Camping Trip by Thrifty Jinxy. by Thrifty Jinxy. Seven Ways to Save Money at Fast Food Restaurants by Thrifty Jinxy. 8 Budget Fitness Tips – Work Your Body NOT Your Wallet by Thrifty Jinxy. 5 Tips At Saving Money at a Garage Sale by Pays2Save.

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60+ Frugal Tips To Help You Save Money!

Saving Everyday

by Thrifty Jinxy. 10 Cheap Camping Ideas – Tips for an Inexpensive Camping Trip by Thrifty Jinxy. by Thrifty Jinxy. Seven Ways to Save Money at Fast Food Restaurants by Thrifty Jinxy. 8 Budget Fitness Tips – Work Your Body NOT Your Wallet by Thrifty Jinxy. 5 Tips At Saving Money at a Garage Sale by Pays2Save.

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Interview with a Self-Made Millionaire

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The topic was ‘ What did today’s millionaires do to be thrifty before they earned their millions?” Me: What do you think of the mass move towards thriftiness in today’s twenty and thirty-something crowd? Me: What else do you recall doing to be thrifty? Peggy: Well, we did everything ourselves.

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