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Save Money: Buy These 7 Items Used

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Garage sales, estate sales, and moving sales are all great places to look for used furniture. While we do frequent the library, there are some books that we like to re-read, and owning them is a practical solution. They lasted us several years, including two cross-country moves. Don’t be! What do you think?

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Beginning Exercise without Breaking the Bank

Saving Cents With Sense

You can also visit your local library and check out DVD’s for free. Check out local thrift stores, Craigslist ads, and garage sales for low cost (and sometimes free!) If you’d prefer to do something a little more active fitness videos are a good way to get started. equipment like mats, hand weights, and fitness benches.

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Beginning Exercise without Breaking the Bank

Saving Cents With Sense

You can also visit your local library and check out DVD’s for free. Check out local thrift stores, Craigslist ads, and garage sales for low cost (and sometimes free!) If you’d prefer to do something a little more active fitness videos are a good way to get started. equipment like mats, hand weights, and fitness benches.

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20 Tips for Frugal Living

For the Mommas

Shop around at garage sales, thrift stores and online classifieds for furniture and other household items. Go to the library. Instead of buying books, check them out of the library. If you calculate your mortgage interest, the cost of insurance and maintenance, buying can be much more expensive than renting. Drink water.

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Meet a Reader | Biker Liz

The Frugal Girl

Can’t believe I live here – a lake near my house Because I’ve lived so many different places, I’ve seen first-hand how good use of available resources can really improve overall community experiences, such as community gardens that utilize city-wide composting programs, to libraries, cycling infrastructure.

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Meet a Reader | Jennifer from Arkansas

The Frugal Girl

There’s always been garage sales/flea markets, library, state parks, fishing. And the community resources & infrastructure are still trying to catch up-namely trails/CSA or food salvage/affordable theater/art/farmers markets-things that used to be affordable but have shot up with everything else.

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