Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 2, 2013

Typically, you don’t have much wall space to paint in a bathroom after installing the mirrors, shower, tiles, and bathroom cabinets. Try painting it yourself instead of hiring a painter. Use framed photos to decorate bare walls instead of high priced paintings. Painting the walls is cheaper than using wallpaper.

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Renovation Cheap Home Flowers and Plants 221

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Inexpensive witch hat, light sticks or battery operated tea lights, and fishing wire, and you’ve got yourself some unique luminaries you won’t find in any Halloween store. DIY Spooky Tree Painting via Crafts by Amanda. This painting will make you look like picasso even though it’s easy enough for Kindergarteners to paint!

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Halloween Cheap DIY Painting 51

Couponing 101

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

One very inexpensive way to decorate your home for the season is with free fall printables ! and spray paint the frame to match!), If you’re not careful, decor costs – even frugal DIY projects – can really get away from you. Just find a cute printable, pop it in a cheap frame (check Goodwill, garage sales, your attic, etc.

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DIY Home Subway Garage Sale 103

Saving Cents With Sense

JUNE 24, 2013

Head to your local craft store and buy a bottle of glow in the dark paint. Using a paint brush paint them with the glow in the dark paint. While you enjoy the music serve inexpensive drinks and snacks such as fruit juice and popcorn. It won’t cost you any more than $4.00 Toss them around the yard. How cool is that?

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Activism Family Inexpensive Kids and Family 104

Saving Cents With Sense

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Spray paint or craft paint in both red and green. Apply a liberal amount of red craft paint or spray paint covering them entirely. While the red pieces are drying, apply some green paint to the puzzle pieces you reserved. So gather the kids and get crafting, you are sure to enjoy this easy and inexpensive DIY!

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DIY Frugal Green And Frugal Painting 105

Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 2, 2012

Paint the kitchen. We have been in our home for 10 years and that room needs a fresh coat of paint, slip covers for the sofas, a new rug, and new window treatments.and I want to do it as inexpensively as possible. Plan a family vacation to Walt Disney World.more on this in future posts. Household Goals. Update our living room.

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Goals Family 2012 Sewing Machines 138

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 18, 2014

The living room walls were painted in a sponge paint fashion, and the kitchen cabinets were a whitish-pink. How To Make The House Hunting Process Easier What To Consider When Deciding To Buy a Home Inexpensive Ways to Modernize Your Home. A House that Needs Light Updating Has Potential. All of the light fixtures needed updating.

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Tucson Buy Buying Kids and Family 180

Saving Cents With Sense

OCTOBER 1, 2013

You can then frame the arrangement in a simple orange or black frame (spray paint a dollar store or thrift store frame to get this look) and you have instant art! Find inexpensive knick knacks at your local dollar store or thrift store that fall into the Halloween theme. Get spraying!

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Halloween DIY Frugal Dollar Store 93

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 5, 2012

Color themes are a great way to go because you can decorate for them easily and inexpensively with colored table clothes, napkins, plastic ware, and so on. Inexpensive activities could include setting up a table with finger paints or coloring books. You can ask an older child to act as a babysitter.

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Bank Banking Food and Drink Food and Wine 201

Saving Cents With Sense

MARCH 30, 2015

After all, they are fairly inexpensive to come by, and you never know when the need for one might pop up. This is a cool trick and all you need is some chalkboard paint. Paint your frame the color of your choice or leave plain. Take basic chalkboard spray paint ($6.99 and spray the glass with two coats of paint.

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Painting Garage Inexpensive Frugal Lives 40

Saving With Shellie

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Fabric Paint. Carpet squares can be found at Dollar Tree or for rather inexpensively at carpet supply stores. Now, using fabric paint you can add any words or saying you wish. Allow plenty of time for the fabric paint to dry before you display it. Take a look at how with a few dollar store supplies, you can make your own!

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Dollar Store DIY Storing Carpet 55

Saving Everyday

MARCH 25, 2014

And this would make a nice inexpensive Easter basket item! Color or paint and watch the colors magically appear on the special paper but not on skin, table, walls or floors. That is nearly 60% off the regular price of $15! Such a great deal! Here are a few details on this set: Creative coloring play without the mess.

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Art Crayola Inexpensive Painting 51

Couponing 101

AUGUST 31, 2019

Firework Paintings via Crafty Morning. White paper, red and blue paint and you’re on your way to making this adorable national bird art! Super inexpensive and adorable! Put them on a string for decoration or have them hold photos or pictures. You make these fireworks with a fork which is absolutely genius!

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Labor Day Crafts Craft Kids 40

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 20, 2013

If you can paint, sculpt, work wood or leather, or even just draw caricatures really well, those kinds of gifts have a lot more meaning behind them then the cheap pedicure machine you can pick up while standing in line at Marshall’s. Sure beats getting another bag of funny socks, and the memories will last a lifetime (unlike the socks).

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Holiday Kids and Family Homemade Cookies Giving 184

Saving Cents With Sense

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Gather some inexpensive supplies such as cardstock and construction paper and make your own. Or, you can make your own ornaments using simple salt dough recipes and paint. Allow children to make their own gifts for people by providing an assortment of inexpensive supplies. Send some cards from the heart. Make your own gift tags.

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Homemade Holiday Bulk Inexpensive 85

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 7, 2013

Maybe you were painting a wall or installing some shelving; doing these things during the winter will hep free up your time to do outdoor activities and projects in the spring. Try to finish up any indoor projects that you had on the go throughout the winter to make your spring-cleaning foray a little less straining.

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Cleaning Appliances Donation Organic 221

Couponing 101

DECEMBER 6, 2011

What I especially love about it is that it can be a very inexpensive way to decorate your home for the seasons! and spray paint the frame to match!), I love the look of “Subway Art” and it also happens to be very trendy this year! maybe add a little embellishment, and voila! Cheap home decor!

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Subway Art DIY Christmas 70

Saving With Shellie

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

If you have a little artist in your family, this would be the perfect inexpensive gift idea! Features: 120-Piece deluxe art set with lots of art supplies for drawing, painting and more. You can grab this Darice 120 Piece Deluxe Art Set for only $9.16! Not only would you be giving an awesome gift but promoting creativity as well.

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Art Kids and Family Inexpensive Frugal Lives 45

Saving Cents With Sense

JANUARY 19, 2013

Give that set of sturdy, bright orange bookshelves new life with several coats of white paint. Sticky, but paint-friendly, animal scenes and princess castles are much easier and less expensive to apply than having an artist paint a character scene. Roller Shades. Like cribs, shades are worth getting in good quality.

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Budgeting Budget Painting Hardware 94

Saving With Shellie

OCTOBER 15, 2013

A trip to the dollar store or craft store is all you need to find these inexpensive supplies. Green (or color of your choice) craft paint. Paint brush. Apply a coat of paint in the color of your choice. Halloween Craft: Monster Stick Puppets. Author: Shellie Deringer – SavingWithShellie.com. Ingredients. Craft glue.

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Halloween Craft Crafts Green And Frugal 45

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 10, 2013

Clap sticks from decorated paint stirrers. Later we went ahead and bought it from the shop – but that wasn’t a very inexpensive solution! Maracas from individual serving sized raisin boxes and dried beans. Rain sticks from a mailing tube, aluminum foil, rice and popcorn. Go To a Retail Music Shop.

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Music Musical Instruments Budgeting Budget 185

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 23, 2012

Instead, focus on ways that you can give items that are inexpensive, personal, and eco-friendly to some degree. From photography to woodworking to painting to sewing, you can use your talents to create personal and unique gifts. As you create your gift list, really think about who’s on it, and what would be meaningful to them.

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Giving Holiday Gifts Recycle 202

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 4, 2012

When you are looking at furniture, you want to look for irreparable problems, but you should also consider what some sanding and some paint might fix. For example, if you find a poster for a dollar, then you can buy an inexpensive frame and have a great piece for your child’s room that in the end costs less than $10.

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Thrift Stores Thrifting Finds Clothing and Accessories 213

Saving With Shellie

JULY 10, 2014

For something so inexpensive, it sure does a lot of great things. Toothpaste is a gentle cleaner that can remove the coloring without affecting paint. Toothpaste has a laundry list of uses beyond cleaning teeth; starting with laundry itself! Remove stains - Toothpaste is great for removing stains in laundry and on carpet.

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Used Frugal Lives Frugal Living Jewelry 88

Saving Cents With Sense

JUNE 18, 2014

According to HomeAdvisor, the average national cost of painting a home exterior is almost $3,000 and $986 to install a door. Filters are a relatively easy and inexpensive do-it-yourself maintenance item most homeowners can buy and replace themselves. These help avoid damage with regular upkeep.

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Home Repair Repairs Saving Money DIY 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 1, 2015

I save tape and paper and old paint drop sheets. I had to part with $35 to buy one of those paint masks to even be able to apply it. The paper is pretty inexpensive at around $3 a roll. To me, frugal implies using resources in the wisest fashion and cheap implies a specific focus on getting the lowest price.

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Frugal Cheap Clothes Clothing 100

Saving Everyday

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Homemade sidewalk paint –Holy cow, this stuff is expensive at the store, but oh-so-popular with the kiddos! Well, here’s an inexpensive homemade version found over at the blog Domestic Charm. Even better?

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DIY Homemade Coffee Mate Reuse 49

Frugal Luxuries

JULY 6, 2011

Painted the clean, dry lids with leftover white spray paint. To soothe the budget and to give thoughtful gifts that will impart that unique quality of things make by the human hand. My most recent project is a delicious, simple, budget~friendly granola/trail mix. I washed and saved the jars from Mike's favorite salsa.

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Homemade Gifts Bulk Painting 40

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

If you have experience with the common household maintenance items (such as a leaky faucet, fixing a broken lamp, backed up toilet or drain, painting, gutter cleaning) you could earn money helping out others in need of such services. Get the word out at your church, do some pro bono work and request that work be referred to you.

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Son Vacation Money Cleaning 100

Frugal Luxuries

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I re-purpose them by painting the outsides white using ordinary acrylic wall paint and a brush. (I I paint them all white to create a more uniform look.) 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).

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Art Frugal Painting Home and Garden 40

Saving Cents With Sense

JUNE 18, 2013

Mix food coloring with small amounts of water to act as paint and then brush the colors on to your ice globes. Did you notice how inexpensive it is to pull these fun activities off? Place in the freezer and keep them there until they are frozen solid. Remove the balloon exposing the ice globe that is now inside. Now that is “cool!”.

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Activism Kids Kids and Family Bank 91

Saving Cents With Sense

JUNE 3, 2013

These projects are all fairly inexpensive and easy for your kids to do with a little supervision. World’s Greatest Dad Craft Project - This is a cute little project that involves a bit of painting and mod podge, which the kids will love. They are sure to have a good time creating something special for dad that he will love.

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Craft Crafts Kids Father 58

Saving Cents With Sense

JULY 26, 2013

Many party favors are inexpensive trinkets that the recipients will throw away after getting home. Consider painting personalized mugs, decorating cupcakes, creating picture frames or making beaded jewelry. It also makes it easy for guests to RSVP. Offer a Crafting Station in Lieu of Party Favors.

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Birthday Jewelry and Watches Parenting Kids 75

For the Mommas

JANUARY 13, 2011

Use paint on an old item and make it new. Paint it a color you love but have been afraid to use in your house. Look at the dollar store or craft stores for inexpensive items to give an additional “POW&# to your area. Don’t be afraid to add an extra candle or lamp to make it BRIGHTER.

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Budgeting Budget Kansas City Kansas 70

Couponing 101

DECEMBER 18, 2014

DIY Team Spirit Platter via Crafty Scrappy Happy Personalize a platter (or plate) with your favorite team name/logo/spirit with some paint and vinyl. Inexpensive yet creative? DIY Chalkboard Paint Party Supplies via Pop Sugar The entertainer on your list will swoon over this! Such a thoughtful, special gift. This is for you.

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DIY Christmas Gifts Homemade 91

Couponing 101

MAY 2, 2015

Grab a nice bouquet of inexpensive wildflowers to finish it off! Painted Rock Garden Markers via Crafts By Amanda Another great gift idea for the gardeners, these are ridiculously adorable. They are really inexpensive to make, and they last forever. I love that this one is made from tea! Give the gift of homemade coasters.

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DIY Gifts Bath and Body Works Flowers and Gifts 40

Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 1, 2021

We were hoping for an easy (and inexpensive) fix, and we were certainly not expecting this news. I love a pedicure too, but if you’re trying to save money, try to paint your piggies yourself. My husband sent me a short text a few years ago, “truck $700.” ” My stomach sank. But the truth is, we have the money.

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Emergency Fund Money Finds Friends And Family Sale 130