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Choose to Thrive

A place to share my Rock-What-Ya-Got approach to living and crafting without spending a dime.

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Kicking Ugly To The Curb: The $3 Mailbox Make-Over

Ever notice how the threat of company stopping by can motivate you to finish those someday projects? Well this week’s visitors finally got me outside to make over our curb-side travesty of a mailbox. Oh sheesh this thing is bad. I mean swinging-from-the-ugly-tree bad. Just check out that chipped paint, rusted top, peeling house numbers and seriously […Read More]

Summer Road Trip #1: Car Snacks

Road Trip snacks

Happy Monday everyone! I’m so excited to be blogging from my hometown in Washington following a 13 hour drive Saturday with our Dirty Half Dozen. And thanks to a little planning, the trip was actually … awesome.  The kids did great, we made good time and even managed to save enough money on travel snacks […Read More]

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I’m Nike — that’s “Neeka” — a SAHM of six kids, age ten and under determined to THRIVE in spite of a layoff, bad economy and our household budget being slashed by half. I refuse to accept that creativity must be a casualty of financial hardship.

I created THRIVE to share my Rock-What-Ya-Got approach to living and crafting without spending a dime. No money. No shopping. No problem.

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