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DIY Project: Nightstand Makeovers
We’re settling into to the Thrifty Palace and having a great time with DIY projects to spruce up our home. Our first projects were geared toward organizing and decorating our bedrooms. Nightstands (or...
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Tidbit Tuesday: Quick Headboard Solutions
I cannot tell you the last time I had a headboard for my bed. Actually I can…it was before I went to college! It’s not because I didn’t want a headboard. They can be quite useful. I just never saw any...
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Tidbit Tuesday: Spa Day at the Thrifty Palace
With Operation Do Better in full effect, paying for professional manicures and pedicures is a luxury that is absolutely off limits until our spending fast is O-V-E-R! Since that doesn’t appear to be...
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Tidbit Tuesday:Thrift Inspiration and Sewing with Kametra
Guest Contributor: Kametra Matthews When I was a little girl, I would go thrift shopping with my grandma every Saturday morning. We would get the “Thrifty Nickle” (free weekly paper with classifieds)...
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Tidbit Tuesday: Turning Tables
So when is a random coffee table from Ikea and Kmart, more than just a table? When you turn it into art. Exhibit A: Black rectangular tables. Randomly enough, we had these nearly identical coffee...
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A Short Truth About Shorts
We might be nine days away from the official start, but it certainly is beginning to feel a lot like summer. That means we’re traipsing around town wearing far less than we did even three weeks ago....
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Tidbit Tuesday: A Bench Fit for Daydreaming
I don’t like dressers. I feel like they often take up a lot of space and aren’t useful for anything other than storing clothes. Though I hang up the majority of my clothes, I needed find a better...
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Man of the Moment: William “Beaver” Brooks
One Sunday, we’re greeting folks at church, and William aka Beaver comes up to us and says, “I’ve been meaning to tell y’all, I love y’all’s style….and then we say (almost in unison), “We love yours...
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Too Thrifty Cooks: A thrifty cooking series
As you all know the Too Thrifty Chicks cook almost everything as part of Operation Do Better. I’m qualifying that “everything” with “almost” because the summer months have us all off kilter. The...
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Too Thrifty Cooks: Lookout for the Cookout
There is very little that we love more than getting together with friends to eat, drink and make merry. But let’s face it, we all have lives and nailing down the schedules of a handful of our favorite...
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Thrifty Transformations: A Multi-purpose Space Makeover
At the Thrifty Palace there is only one place more popular than our kitchen and our couch — our basement. And until recently it was the place where we stored the little bit of junk we have, the place...
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Tidbit Tuesday: Dumpster Chair Makeover
I spent a large chunk of last weekend eating IKEA cinnamon rolls (which happen to be 6 for $4), sniffing candles, and picking out fabric with my good friend Keila H. Keila is my ‘I like to do crafts...
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Tidbit Tuesday: Homemade Laundry Detergent
We are always looking for ways to save money. Always. So when our friend Bridget M. told us about making her own dishwashing detergent we immediately wanted to give it a try. When we went looking for a...
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Tidbit Tuesday: The Power of Pesto
It’s time for another installment in the Thrifty Cooking Series and today’s topic is pesto. Yes that deliciously flavored green slurry that makes certain Italian dishes taste so yummy — pesto. For a...
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Too Thrifty Chicks Cook: A twofer with three ingredients
The Too Thrifty Chicks are a day late and a dollar short these days when it comes to posts. We’ve both been living life on the run — Reese in Austin and me working my temp job — and things are crazy to...
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Use Those Photos: DIY Cards
I take photos. Lots of photos. Seriously, I have about 30,000 photos. What do most of us do with our photos these days? Post them on Facebook and Instagram. We might print them out and tuck them away...
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Final Recap: Low Spend January. The End.
Hello Chicks and Chucks. We made it through the last week of Low Spend January and the answer to the question of the last post of whether the last week would be a truly no spend week alas is…NO. But I...
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