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Exploring Veteran’s Benefits

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

His Grandfather was a WWI Vet, who died of complications from disease that he contracted while on active duty in a war zone. For many years, this man’s wife and family lived near poverty after the Grandfather died of this disease. We paid cash for our vacation condo and paid off our last mortgage in 1993 (Yeah!).

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

Also, we’re by a military base, so it’s a little easier to find houses to rent if you know when people will be PCSing out and needing to rent out their homes. And because my husband has access to the military base we can use their lake and camping sites which are much less crowded than the civilian areas. Not at all.

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