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How to Save Money by Greening your Wardrobe

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

You might uncover some garments that have seen better days and should probably have been recycled some time ago. Maybe you could organize a clothes swap amongst your friends. Whatever you choose, you will be de-cluttering your home, recycling, re-using and maybe making a bit of money as well.

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Go Green This Halloween

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Tip # 2 Recycle/reuse costumes. Bring in your slightly used, but in good shape costume and pick one from those others brought in – as a swap. What do you do to recycle/reuse on Halloween? No kids = no money on candy = no candy wrappers in the landfill. No kids = no parties or haunted houses = money saved.

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Fashion Tip #2: Going Green Fashion

Fashion Without Guilt

Recycling your clothing, shopping at thrift stores, and reselling your old items are to SAVE GREEN!!! Recycling/Swapping Clothing It's time for spring cleaning and what better way to get rid of old clothing and start a new, than selling or recycling what you already have. Here are some tips and ways to Go Green.

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Earth Day 2011 Deals and Freebies

Couponing 101

CurrClick – Free Recycling Sight Word PocketBook from CurrClick. FaveCrafts – Download the Free Recycling Crafts eBook. Swapping Credit. When you use this credit towards your first swap you can get a box of children’s clothes for as little as $2! Or get $0.50

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Financial Pet Peeves

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Guest Post Author Bio: The following are some thoughts along the lines of “Financial Pet Peeves”, the theme of the fourth edition of the Yakezie Post Swap. We do do a pretty good job of recycling leftovers into new dishes. Instead of just one pet peeve, I suppose I have a menagerie of peeves, a whole peevery.

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Giveaway: Tony’s 99 Days of More – 10 Winners Get 9 Free Pizza Coupons

For the Mommas

4. With Your Neighbors: Rally your friends and families together and have a huge clothes and shoes swap. Consider wrapping presents in recycled paper and let your kids decorate the outside! Get great gear for the kids without breaking your bank at the mall – especially since they outgrow things so fast!

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Sharing Goods to Reduce Consumption and Cut Waste

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The gross over-consumption around the world is filling our landfills and recycling bins with unnecessary waste, both toxic and benign alike. A magazine swap cuts paper waste and saves money. The marketers are very good at their jobs, and every single one of us falls for it at some point or another no matter how hard we try to avoid it.