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My Best Garage Sale Finds

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you keep your head and are persistent, you can find many things you want or need, all in near perfect condition, for a fraction of the cost with NO TAXES due. For example, if you want to buy slightly used home furnishings, find an upscale neighborhood where the kids are mostly grown. A can of Rustoleum fixed this up for use.

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How To Recover From A Home Fire

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We were preparing to go out of town to the grandkids house the next morning. Don’t Re-Enter Your Home Until Cleared By The Fire Department. You will find that things the fire did not burn up are now ruined by smoke and soggy with water used to put out the flames. It was a Thursday night, the 20 th of December 2012.

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Seven Retirement Lessons Learned

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Before retiring I often wondered about life after retirement – would we have enough money , would it change our marriage, would the kids and grandkids have different expectations, what if catastrophe struck and money became an issue, what would I do, would I miss the daily interaction with the people with whom I worked for many years?