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How To Re-use Common Items

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We tear down big boxes and lay them on the garage floor in case of oil leaks. Once we used old magazines for a craft project in Camp Fire Girls to make a ‘sit upon’ (cover the magazine with something water repellent and sew the sides together). Decorated bags (such as those you put gifts in) are just reused for gift giving.

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Kmart Black Friday 2011 Ad

Couponing 101

Food Lay's Chips - B1G1 Free Pepsi 2-liter, Aquafina Flavorsplash, Sobe Lifewater or Tea - 10 for $10 Holiday Items All Boxed Cards - 50% Off Assorted Trim-a-Home Light Sets - 50% Off Christmas Socks - 88¢ Trim-a-Home 6-foot Blue Mountain Christmas Tree - $19.99 Singer Basic 18-Stitch Simple Sewing Machine - $64.99

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A Green and Frugal Funeral

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Sayward was just a teen, but she took charge of preparing her mother’s body for burial – instructing her sisters to help her wash her mom’s body, clean the clothing to bury her in and sew a pillow to put under her head. All the while the two smallest siblings were watching their father make a wood casket and dig the burial hole.

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Dollar Store DIY: No Sew Christmas Pillow

Saving With Shellie

Do you love the look of homemade crafts but hate the idea of sewing a single stitch? If you love crafting but fear a needle and thread, this no sew Christmas pillow is for you. Begin by laying your cloth place mat flat and them folding it in half. Give this easy no sew pillow a try and see what you can create.

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Weekly DIY: Initial pillow

Cheap Chica's Guide To Style

Don’t be discouraged by that fact that it requires sewing, it just requires a little bit of patience. Sewing maching (optional). For sections that require more that 2 beads, still bead 2 at a time, but once all have been sewn down, go back through every bead in the line so that they lay straight. Pins (optional).

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