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Experience Based Graduation Gifts

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Parents of graduates have spent years guarding and protecting their child. Your son or daughter visits different relatives in different cities, taking a temporary job in each to earn gas money and pay back their hosts for food and etc. Expand horizons through travel. Your graduate volunteers for an overseas mission.

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A Matter of Perspective

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I pictured my adult sons and their families gathering there with my spouse and I, having fun, building new relationships and making memories. In a few months will the world be any worse off if the plumbing gets fixed a week from the now or in two weeks? Read a joke, tell a joke, watch a funny movie (or a funny person!).

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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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