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Save Money: Buy These 7 Items Used

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you want to save money, one of the best options is to buy used. Not only can buying something second-hand help you save money, but it also reduces the amount of resources that you use. Buying used is one way to increase the sustainability of your life. There are many consumer electronics items that you can purchase used.

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Wait, Don’t Buy That Yet!

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Sure I knew about the ‘White sales’ – the ones stores used to have in January on sheets and towels and such, but I really hadn’t a clue that there is a best time to buy many other things! However, I wait until spring and summer to buy decorations – and get them at garage sales. Brand name TVs. Winter clothes.

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Growing up in the 1950?s

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Growing up in the fifties made me everlastingly grateful for a number of things, such as hot running water, central air conditioning, automatic dishwashers, TV remote control, the internet, personal computers (typewriters really sucked – no backspacing!), Most of us did not have air conditioned homes. Neighbors knew each other.

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How to Simplify Your Life to Make it Better

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

What about the old refrigerator in the garage you only use when you have a party? Do you have an old TV lurking anywhere that is never watched? Do you really need to have three TVs in your house anyway? Do you have sports equipment that no one uses or camping gear left over from that one trip you took five years ago?

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Have Movie Night with the Epson MegaPlex MG-50 Easy Home Theater LCD Projector

Nicoles Nickels

This versatile connectivity allows users to easily connect and project Microsoft® Xbox 360™, Sony® PS3™, Nintendo Wii™, PCs, TVs, DVD players, Android™ devices and streaming devices like Apple TV and Roku®. The garage door also provides an outdoor arena for watching!

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Needs vs. Wants

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We got by back then using open windows, fans and attic fans. Two car garages. With the two income household came the need for more than one set of wheels and consequently the desire for multiple garages. A TV in every room. Our parents had TVs (most of them), but typically only one per household. We have three.

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7 Tips for a Successful Yard Sale

Family Balance Sheet

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. And they do work, but they are very old TVs that nobody wants anymore.