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Cheap Ways To Renovate Your Home

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you can, keep the location of the plumbing intact. Typically, you don’t have much wall space to paint in a bathroom after installing the mirrors, shower, tiles, and bathroom cabinets. Typically, you don’t have much wall space to paint in a bathroom after installing the mirrors, shower, tiles, and bathroom cabinets.

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Christmas Gifts on a Budget: Up-cycling is the Answer

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Galvanized pipe for plumbing is perfect. Cover plant pots for one off coordinated dining room décor. Cover a small picture frame with your gift recipient’s initials or spell out a phrase on a repurposed painted trinket box, using a hot glue gun to attach the keys. Using epoxy, attach a saucer to a garden stake.

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

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Today a poor person in America probably has access to electricity, telephones, food, indoor plumbing, central heat and public transportation. In my Grandparents time, none of the neighbors had electricity, indoor plumbing or central heat. Her homes had coal furnaces with radiator heating, electricity and indoor plumbing.

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