Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Many other items, which if left untended cause safety issues should be handled soonest as well. Signs that Your Boiler Needs Repairing Refresh Your Roof for Less Than $50 How to Save Money on Water Costs Life’s Too Short – To Drink Flat Coke Ways to Make Do With What You Have. When to tolerate and when to fix.

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Saving Money Money Saving Emergency Fund 162

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 31, 2014

Was it the times you were flush with money or the times you were dirt poor and had to make do? Surviving a negative experience and enduring through or perhaps even overcoming it shows us that we are made of more than we ever dreamed, that we can do and be more than we thought. Challenge yourself.

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Debt College Student Money 167

Saving With Shellie

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

I just love the scent and how well it cleans my clothes. I do my best to find deals and using P&G coupons, I usually don’t have to pay full price. But for those of you doing 12, 14 and 17 loads it won’t last quite as long! But hey, six bottles of free detergent almost makes doing laundry bearable!

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Tide Giveaway Clothes Clothing 74

Frugal Luxuries

AUGUST 27, 2012

Frugal Times: Making~Do With Dignity which evolved into our Frugal Luxuries newsletters and book series). As well, I scanned a copy to share with you. Since Mike returned to work a few weeks ago I have been trying to de~clutter my closets and office. I confess to spending far too much time reading through them.

Home Depot 40

Home Depot Evolve Re-use 2000 40

For the Mommas

JANUARY 23, 2013

Adrian Nazari, CEO and founder of CreditSesame.com , is available to talk about how consumers can start 2013 on the right financial foot, as well as discuss the top 3 financial resolutions and what consumers can do to address them including: Saving More. Do you really need cable television or can you make do without?

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Monitors Credit Debt Consumer 40

Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 1, 2015

I started the Debt Free Stories interview series back in September and it has been really well received. We will be challenging ourselves to resist buying retail and instead choose thrift by borrowing, buying second hand, or making do with what we already have. My Themes for 2015: 1. Debt Free Stories. Weekly Meals on a Budget.

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2015 Money Debt Home and Garden 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 8, 2016

After a number of years of ‘making do or doing without’ a person discovers ways of doing things that work – using minimal resources. It will remove deeply embedded smells in things as well. Here are a few things I’ve come up with or utilized over my 67 years on the planet. Shower stalls.

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Work Frugal Cleaning Green And Frugal 100

Frugal Luxuries

OCTOBER 1, 2012

well as a thorough vacuuming via the wet-dry vac.then spot clean ing.of 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.

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Making Home and Garden Craigslist Green And Frugal 40

Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 17, 2018

I want to challenge myself to rethink our purchases by taking advantage of more cost effective solutions, like borrowing, buying second hand, or just making do with what we already have. What We Won’t Give Up: My motto has always been “living well on less” and now it will be “living well on (even) less”.

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Financial Goals Goals 2018 Debt 113

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 1, 2014

That was true for me as well, but I also think that poverty is a very relative concept. In their first home together, built out in the new suburbs (then it was country), Mom endured well water and an outhouse. Plus, it can be really inconvenient to “make do or do without!” Do you have a funny story about making do?

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St. Louis Plumbing Flowers and Plants Kids and Family 176

The Frugal Girl

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

I have tried homemade laundry detergent and abandoned it – time consuming and it didn’t work well in my machine. I don’t make homemade hummus anymore either – we don’t have enough people eating it now, so it just goes to waste. My home would easily be 5-6 times more expensive on the East Coast.

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Kids and Family Money Home and Garden Frugal 189