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Used Furniture – Re-purpose, Recycle, Re-use.

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

But there are ways to save – consider used furniture. While most folks consider wood and metal used furniture to be quite restorable, many turn their noses up at re-using fabric covered items. You can also find older, quality items at used furniture stores. How to make used furniture usable.

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How To Re-use Common Items

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We also used the 40 year old burnt orange coffee pot to make coffee that day as well as the 20 year old ice chest and 25 year old rain ponchos from the local amusement park, old plastic forks and spoons, unused condiment packages from fast food restaurant stops and plastic tablecloths used at last years wedding shower.

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Can you freeze food in glass jars?

The Frugal Girl

If you’re freezing something like nuts, seeds, or flour, then of course this is not a problem; those things don’t expand much at all when they’re frozen. But if your jar contents are water-based, then they’re definitely going to expand. Do you need to use wide-mouth jars?

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Five Frugal Things | A lunch-y edition

The Frugal Girl

I’m using metal containers to pack my lunches Reusable containers make for a greener lunch, and a cheaper lunch. They’re lightweight, they take up less space than glass containers, and they’re unbreakable. They’re lightweight, they take up less space than glass containers, and they’re unbreakable.

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Q&A | Nursing School Qs, plus shoes, a planner, and the abandoned house

The Frugal Girl

They’re covered with a skin-like material, and the lab techs can just rinse them out after use so that the next group can use them as well. In case you’re new, here’s a post about the abandoned house , which has provided a lot of the things I used to furnish my rental house.) On each other?

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WIS, WWA | Well, now I know

The Frugal Girl

I’ve been out of school for the last two semesters, so I’d gotten kind of used to my carefree life. ? (Ok, Anyway, this week has made it clear to me that I need to change up how I do things; I need to switch up how I use weekend time, how I plan meals, and when I do household stuff. Ok, well, not entirely carefree.

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Five Frugal Things | I fixed it, Officer!

The Frugal Girl

It’s not like I use one light bulb more than the other. ? Luckily, they’re a pretty similar cut and you can’t really see them once I have my Vans on. ? That reminds me: Twinings is a type of tea bag you could use for making the tea bag Christmas wreaths A. Marie shared with us.) ” when she saw me.

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