Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 22, 2016

They had a cow for milk, chickens for eggs and a garden for vegetables. Americans pride themselves on their ‘Yankee ingenuity’ – making do or doing without. You can’t have much of a garden in a high rise apartment. I used to garden. Wood was there for the taking.

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Canning At&T Gardening Garden 100

Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 1, 2015

We will be challenging ourselves to resist buying retail and instead choose thrift by borrowing, buying second hand, or making do with what we already have. Easy Exercises to do on a Cruise Ship | Amanda Woods @ Adventures All Around. How to Make This the Best Gardening Year Ever | Kendra Spencer @ a Sonoma Garden.

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2015 Money Debt Home and Garden 100

Frugal Luxuries

OCTOBER 1, 2012

need to descale the glass shower doors in master bath using a citric acid solution Continue going through and organizing all my old F rugal Times: Making-Do With Dignity and Frugal Luxuries newsletters along with my collection of vintage ephemera. well as a thorough vacuuming via the wet-dry vac.then spot clean ing.of the carpet.

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Making Home and Garden Craigslist Green And Frugal 40

The Frugal Girl

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

I don’t make homemade hummus anymore either – we don’t have enough people eating it now, so it just goes to waste. We’re not good gardeners but we planted a lot of trees for the shade and beauty. We have a big family, but we live in a small house – we use bunk beds and make do.

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Kids and Family Money Home and Garden Frugal 190

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 1, 2014

Mom had a vegetable garden and grew sweet corn. When the ears were full and ripe she would pull one down and let me make a doll – using the cob for the body, the silk for the hair and the husk for the clothing. Plus, it can be really inconvenient to “make do or do without!” Poverty aids the imagination.

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St. Louis Plumbing Flowers and Plants Kids and Family 176