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Caring Causes: Dallas Black Dance Academy - Adopt-A-School Dance Program

Motherhood Moments

Our Adopt-A-School Dance Program offers free training to help elevate students by enriching their in-school dance class instruction. This program allows us to continue to connect with our community as well as recruit students to our academy who are seriously interested in dance. It was founded by Ann Williams.

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Your Diploma Guarantees You Nothing

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you are a young college student and are excited about the opportunities that await you after you receive your college diploma, you may want to read this post very carefully. If you backtrack 30 or 40 years, you’ll find that the majority of students did not complete their college degree. Do you remember 2008?

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Can’t Afford Private School? It May Not Matter.

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

According to the latest study by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), randomly selected 15 year old students in America are almost average compared to counterparts in 70 participating countries. The resources were superior and the students tested better.

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Pixar Short Films Collection 2 (Blu-ray) Only $13.99 (Reg. $26.50)!

Couponing 101

Disney and Pixar present an incredible new collection of 12 short films, featuring multiple Academy Award nominees (Best Short Film, Animated: “Presto,” 2008; “Day & Night,” 2010; “La Luna,” 2011) and a host of family favorites. Shipping is free with Amazon Prime or any order over $35.

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Why I blog

Saving SAHM Sanity

I was looking at the first year of posts from 2008 and 2009 and I am surprised at how much my life has changed. The biggest changes have to be my decision to become a full time college student. I've never been to college before, and other than becoming a mom, becoming a student was the biggest adjustment I've ever made in my life!

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Frugal housing.

Finally Frugal

Last week, I was dithering about whether to pay down my second mortgage early, or start working on my student loan. That comment made me think about all of the news articles written by supposed 'experts' who predicted that we had (or would) hit bottom in 2008, or 2009, or 2010, or even 2011!

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Happy New Year!

Finally Frugal

Little did I know when I started this blog in January of 2008 that I would learn so much and come so far in my struggle to overcome my debt and control my spending. Welcome to 2011! Over the past three years I've heard from so many of you who are in the same situation, either just beginning your journey or close to the end.