Saving Cents With Sense

JANUARY 5, 2014

You can also visit your local library and check out DVD’s for free. Check out local thrift stores, Craigslist ads, and garage sales for low cost (and sometimes free!) If you’d prefer to do something a little more active fitness videos are a good way to get started. YouTube has hundreds, if not thousands of free workouts available.

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Bank Banking Cable Service Money 111

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 16, 2013

Many libraries have great areas for kids where they can listen to a story, or browse through DVDs they’d like watch. You can often find board games that are inexpensive at thrift s tores , although it is a good idea to check them to make sure all the pieces are there before you buy one.

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Frugal Life Frugal Kids and Family Inexpensive 242

Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 8, 2020

I feel like I made a lot of trips to the thrift store to donate our stuff, but my house will tell you otherwise. This is my referral Amazon link, but I found the book at the library.) It was a long road and we were finally non-mortgage debt FREE!! Related Reading: Our Debt Freedom Plan Update (October 2019).

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Financial Goals Goals 2020 2019 130

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 23, 2014

Cameras had to have actual film and pictures had to be developed after the whole roll of film was ‘exposed’ Research was done at a library using the Dewey decimal system, not a search engine. You researched in the library and wrote to the state’s to get information to plan a trip. Weather prediction was terrible.

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Growing Home and Garden Radios Kids and Family 180

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Head to your local library, fabric or craft store, or bookstore and look for a how-to book on sewing. If you have never attempted to make your own clothes before, or if you have little or no sewing skills, finding some good reference materials is a great place to start.

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Clothes Clothing Making Sewing 216

For the Mommas

JULY 24, 2016

Shop around at garage sales, thrift stores and online classifieds for furniture and other household items. Go to the library. Instead of buying books, check them out of the library. If you calculate your mortgage interest, the cost of insurance and maintenance, buying can be much more expensive than renting. Frugal gifting.

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Frugal Lives Frugal Living Frugal Magazine and Newspaper Subscriptions 49

Saving Cents With Sense

JANUARY 12, 2016

You can also visit your local library and check out DVD’s for free. Check out local thrift stores, Craigslist ads, and garage sales for low cost (and sometimes free!) If you’d prefer to do something a little more active fitness videos are a good way to get started. YouTube has hundreds, if not thousands of free workouts available.

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Bank Banking Cable Service Craigslist 40

Couponing 101

JANUARY 15, 2015

We also will continue our weekly library visits for free reading material, audiobooks, and even movies/TV shows on DVD to borrow. Sell Stuff I have a bin in our closet that I collect items we no longer need and when the bin is full, I either sell the items or deliver them to the thrift store. It was a win-win!

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Leftovers Freezers Gift Cards January 40