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Realistic Couponing

Couponing 101

My couponing grocery trips rarely take longer than a trip where I don’t use coupons (scanning coupons really only takes a few minutes in a normal shopping trip). Just pull the coupons you need, print your list and go! I do think that everyone can use coupons though. A good rule of thumb is to buy one newspaper per family member.

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

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

She also scarfed up any other gift wrap that looked usable, and she stored it carefully away for use the next year. Use paper drop cloth to wrap. that is more or less equivalent to 5 big rolls of printed Christmas wrapping paper, which costs around $3 per roll – a savings of around $6 overall. Use paper from other sources.

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Things You Can Do To NOT Make Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Back before the internet was invented, I used to write short fiction stories and try to get them published. It kept me busy and out of trouble, used up a lot of stamp money, but never yielded a dime. I’m betting that some of you folks may be writers – have you ever tried to have fiction published in a printed media?

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5 Budget Friendly Ways to Bring More Life to Your Apartment

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Here are five ways to stretch your decorating dollars: 1) Buy used furniture. You can visit garage sales, local flea markets and scratch and dent stores to locate used furniture that needs to be refurbished. 2) Create extra seating , and save on furniture costs, by using colorful floor pillows.

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How To Tuesday: Extreme Couponing (Part 1)

Saving With Shellie

While I think the shopping trips featured on the show are a little over-the-top, you can still be Extreme Couponer without having a garage full of salad dressing. So branch out of your ordinary and learn how to use coupons to achieve saving succes! Each Sunday, you will find coupon inserts in most metropolitan newspapers.

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Additional Income Needed: Work for Others or Yourself?

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Internet-based businesses have a few tremendous advantages over brick-and-mortar businesses: You don’t have to rent office and warehouse space, and you need not have a spare room or your garage stuffed with inventory. Understand that the Internet is simply a way to advertise, just like newspapers, fliers and signs.

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7 Tips for a Successful Yard Sale

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Our big ticket items were a hardly used 16" Disney Princess bike that is every girls'' dream except for our little one who is now too big for it and a gently used Handy Manny tool bench that we bought on Black Friday several years ago and still paid too much. Another man was pretty excited about the find and he had a use for them.