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"Potential Accomplishments" and The Natural Magic of List-Making: Creating a Master~List

Frugal Luxuries

need to descale the glass shower doors in master bath using a citric acid solution Continue going through and organizing all my old F rugal Times: Making-Do With Dignity and Frugal Luxuries newsletters along with my collection of vintage ephemera. well as a thorough vacuuming via the wet-dry vac.then spot clean ing.of the carpet.

Making 40
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Bee Stung Butts, Freeze Dried Diapers and Other Hilarious Happenings of Poverty

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

There is a plant called poke that the mountain folks used for greens, but the kids had another use for that plant. They used the berries to make a purple die and painted their own and each others bodies with it! All they had to do was find some pony poop and plant it! I ended up freeze drying them in the garage!

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Meet a Reader | Mbmom11, in the Midwest

The Frugal Girl

He got his roofing urges out when he build our garage last year though!) I don’t make homemade hummus anymore either – we don’t have enough people eating it now, so it just goes to waste. We’re not good gardeners but we planted a lot of trees for the shade and beauty. In my area, housing is cheap.