Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 13, 2012

Your kids have been to camp, done baseball and goofed off to their hearts content. Each year I try to help my kids teach their kids about personal finance. Teaching The Gift of Giving This year the grand kids are 5 and 8 years old and I want to demonstrate the pleasures of giving. Now you wait.

Giving 188

Giving Used Craft Crafts 188

Saving Everyday

MARCH 27, 2013

Ace Hardware – $5 off $25 through 3/31. Kids Crafts for Easter eBook – 28 pages of our favorite homemade Easter projects! Yankee Candle Coupon – B2G1 FREE through 4/15. And for some inspiration, here are some fun FREE eBooks to download and FREE catalogs to order: Cheap and Easy Crafts eBook.

Catalog 49

Catalog Crafts Craft Hobby 49

Coupons Do Work

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

ACE Hardware – FREE $5 OFF Birthday Hardware. • ACE Hardware – FREE Kids Club Birthday Surprise. Bar Toma (Chicago, IL) – FREE $25 Birthday Reward. • BareMinerals by Bare Escentuals – FREE Full Size Birthday Beauty Product. • Barnes & Noble – FREE Kids Cupcake. • Barry’s Bagels (MI, OH) – FREE Birthday Cookie.

Birthday 100

Birthday 2017 Food Desserts 100

Frugal Luxuries

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The paint is usually left over from home projects or from cans of mistake-paint bought from the hardware store for a dollar or two (or less). At the moment I'm thinking of using them as gift packaging for tidy stacks of holiday cookies or a delicious batch of homemade Poppycock.or??? a fun thing we've done since the kids were little.)

Art 40

Art Frugal Painting Home and Garden 40