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Yes Virginia, There is a Money Tree

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

You have to plant it, feed it, water it and care for it to make it grow big enough to notice. You can do this. We don’t panic because we know we can make do with out the investment money. Well, kids, your parents lied to you – money does grow on trees. The trees are your investment accounts.

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"Potential Accomplishments" and The Natural Magic of List-Making: Creating a Master~List

Frugal Luxuries

need to descale the glass shower doors in master bath using a citric acid solution Continue going through and organizing all my old F rugal Times: Making-Do With Dignity and Frugal Luxuries newsletters along with my collection of vintage ephemera. well as a thorough vacuuming via the wet-dry vac.then spot clean ing.of the carpet.

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Bee Stung Butts, Freeze Dried Diapers and Other Hilarious Happenings of Poverty

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

There is a plant called poke that the mountain folks used for greens, but the kids had another use for that plant. They used the berries to make a purple die and painted their own and each others bodies with it! All they had to do was find some pony poop and plant it! Do you have a funny story about making do?

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Meet a Reader | Mbmom11, in the Midwest

The Frugal Girl

I don’t make homemade hummus anymore either – we don’t have enough people eating it now, so it just goes to waste. We’re not good gardeners but we planted a lot of trees for the shade and beauty. We have a big family, but we live in a small house – we use bunk beds and make do.