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Children’s Music on a Budget

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Garage sales – I found a guitar for $5.00 once at a garage sale and bought it for my grandson. Relatives – Great Uncle Joe may still have that trumpet he used to play and might like to donate it to a future generation! We rented our son’s alto saxophone while he took lessons in high school.

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

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

One of their uncles played a joke on them and told them that they could ‘grow’ a pony. Our son was born in October, so I carried him all summer. I ended up freeze drying them in the garage! She made June bug strings, I made clover flower necklaces. Sometimes the adults got in on things too, according to Dolly.

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