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Growing up in the 1950?s

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

riding lawn mowers, garage door openers and many, many more things we take for granted today. Ours was smaller (about 700 square feet) – 2 bedrooms (my brother and I shared one and my parents the other), a kitchen and a living room, No basement or garage. There were no garage door openers. There was no internet.

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Is Re-Gifting Acceptable?

Nicoles Nickels

I keep a closet in the garage with gifts that I wasn’t so into. In order to avoid this potential faux paus, look to other ways to “re-gift” which could be selling the item at a yard sale, returning it to the store for store credit to get something you like better, or even to re-sell the gift! Is that the question?

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Meet a Reader | Biker Liz

The Frugal Girl

We had to sell it less than 3 years after buying it, and between that and the market timing (bought in 2009, sold in 2012), we were lucky to come out of the whole situation with our original mortgage paid off completely by the sale! Hosting garage sales & reselling items. What’s one thing you splurge on?