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Embrace the Negative!

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Was it the times you were flush with money or the times you were dirt poor and had to make do? As a parent, your expectations of your growing child increase month by month and year by year. You know that you are going to grow when things go wrong. When he is a year old, you encourage him to take those first steps.

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

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In it she reminisces about growing up poor in the Great Smokey mountains in East Tennessee. Dad grew up on his parent’s farm with a wood stove, an outhouse and kerosene lamps. But I never felt poor growing up. One of their uncles played a joke on them and told them that they could ‘grow’ a pony.

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