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Erin Huffstetler

Featured Reader: Bev, KS

By , About.com Guide   November 18, 2009

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Bev from Kansas

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Your Favorite Source for Bargains:

Thrift shops, consignment sales and garage sales

Your Best Bargain of All Times:

It's a toss up between a $100 Chevrolet Caprice and our corn stove. The car is used as a work car, but only had 57,000 original miles on it. It gets 18 miles to the gallon, and if need be, could be used as a family car. The corn stove was $1500, and we used $450 worth of corn the first year. We also have a wood stove, but we would have still needed a tank of propane a month. If we had used propane, it would have cost us $2800 a winter to heat the house. Now all we need is to purchase corn every year. The wood is free - it just costs our time.

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