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Repair, Don’t Replace

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

You could take your radio to the radio and TV repair shop down the street, but most things you could probably fix yourself. He was a trained radio and TV repairman, when those had tubes. I give away perfectly good electronics because they are ‘out of date’ – they don’t work with new software.

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Growing up in the 1950?s

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Ours was smaller (about 700 square feet) – 2 bedrooms (my brother and I shared one and my parents the other), a kitchen and a living room, No basement or garage. On Halloween we did a trick for our treat inside of a neighbors house, without our parents around and got homemade goodies to eat as a treat. My radio was AM only.

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