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Money Matters - How to Build Healthy Financial Habits and Prevent Future Debt

Motherhood Moments

Instead, you may want to check out thrift stores or buy classic, high-quality items that will last longer. Credit can be a valuable tool when used wisely, but it can also quickly lead to debt if you're not careful. Rather, it's about making choices that align with your values. on your credit card. Make smart choices with credit.

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How To Haggle For A Bargain

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

This tip is always worth a shot, especially at big box electronics stores. You have a great negotiating tool at your disposal if you know what other stores are selling a particular item for. This is because many stores have a price match policy or a 110% price match guarantee where they will actually undersell their competition.

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Cheapest TP in town!

Marnies Coupon-a-rama

REprinted by reader request: The other place was an interesting store. It''s a discount/resale/thrift store connected to Clark''s Wholesale Paints. Besides knit caps and winter gloves for $2.00, they had new tools at huge discounts, used furniture, Route 66 memorabilia, and very good prices on latex paint.

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Should You Learn To Sew?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you can’t save money, need extra tools and have to learn how, why would anyone learn to sew? Today it is much less expensive to buy your clothes, even if you buy brand new and certainly if you shop some of the chic re-sale shops or even the thrift stores. Why learn to sew? As a hobby. It’s not cool.

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Repair, Don’t Replace

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Typically, the sponsoring organization arranges for a place to gather, a set of experts to be on hand, tools available for fixing things as well as the publicity and communication to the community to bring folks in with their items to be repaired.

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How to Save Money with Your Kindle

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

While Kindles are very useful and fun tools, they can tempt you to spend more money than you should. 8 Great Things that You Can Find at Thrift Stores Don't forget to enter to win an iPad 3 here at PET. Some people end up buying and downloading more books than they will read in the next couple of years.

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Organize Your Home

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We have accumulated a lot of stuff – lose screws, highly prized collectibles, everyday essentials, clothes that ‘might fit again someday’, tools, children’s artwork, food stuffs and more. We have lived in our current home for almost 25 years, and have been married for over 40 years. I carried this idea to our garage.

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