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5 Budget Friendly Ways to Bring More Life to Your Apartment

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You can visit garage sales, local flea markets and scratch and dent stores to locate used furniture that needs to be refurbished. If you find a table with a leg missing, you can buy four matching stair posts or use recycled bench legs to create a unique centerpiece for your living area. Look around your apartment for inspiration.

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How To Re-use Common Items

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We tear down big boxes and lay them on the garage floor in case of oil leaks. Old paper from things such as newspapers, magazines, discards from the printer and etc are used at our house to start fires, make notes and for grocery lists. 8 Easy Ways to Reduce, Recycle, and Reuse. We save boxes to ship items. Small Utility Items.

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Sharing Goods to Reduce Consumption and Cut Waste

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Everywhere you look, television, billboards, the Internet, magazines, newspapers and radios try to tell us what we need to buy and consume in order to be happy. The gross over-consumption around the world is filling our landfills and recycling bins with unnecessary waste, both toxic and benign alike. Happiness sell!