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Go Ahead and Be a Cheap Date

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Rent a learn-to-dance video at the library and take a laptop to a local park at night. Grab a book from your library. Do you have any fun, inexpensive date night ideas? If you want, invest in a book on the stars and learn to identify some of the constellations. Dance the night away. Read books aloud. Think of new things.

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

Back when I was engaged and living on my own for the first time (I lived with my parents while in grad school to save on rent), I went to the library a lot and found a copy of the Tightwad Gazette. Eventually, when I was married and working at a library I ordered my own copy of the Complete Tightwad Gazette–and I still have it!

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Frugal Family Fun in the American Midwest

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Did you know that seven of the eleven presidential libraries are in the Midwest, with three of them in these states? Visit the Truman library and the Historic Truman home that he and Bess lived in; and the farm home where Harry lived as a young man for only $12 per adult and $3 per child. then rent a bike and ride a bit.

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

Box are some of my favorite authors) and I use the library to borrow both regular books and electronic resources. When they got married, they bought a duplex so that the rent money from the tenant in the upstairs apartment would pay the mortgage. I love to read (Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Linda Castillo, Paul Doiron and C.J.