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Is Self-Sufficiency Possible in the 21st Century?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

They had a cow for milk, chickens for eggs and a garden for vegetables. Americans pride themselves on their ‘Yankee ingenuity’ – making do or doing without. You can’t have much of a garden in a high rise apartment. I used to garden. Wood was there for the taking.

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Meet a Reader | Mbmom11, in the Midwest

The Frugal Girl

I have tried homemade laundry detergent and abandoned it – time consuming and it didn’t work well in my machine. I don’t make homemade hummus anymore either – we don’t have enough people eating it now, so it just goes to waste. My home would easily be 5-6 times more expensive on the East Coast.