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The Cost of Personal Grooming

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

A study once conducted by members of the economics department at Elon University in North Carolina concluded (according to article Clothes and Personal Grooming Can Affect Earnings on Live Science ). that increased grooming time has a large, positive effect on minority men, a negative effect on women and no effect on white males. “.

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Should You Invest In A Rising Market?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We individual investors have all become market skittish since the recent huge recession and economic downturn. That is the beauty of our inability to know the future! I’d rather buy stocks at a lower price and sell them at a higher one if I can. It’s hard for me, emotionally to avoid trying to time the market.

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