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Get More Than 20% Off Paint Night Tickets!

Couponing 101

When a friend of mine invited me to a night of painting an actual picture I was terrified. The company is called Yaymaker (formerly the Original Paint Nite). It’s where a group of people meet up at a designated location (often a coffee shop or restaurant) and follow the instructions of a teacher to paint amazing pictures. .

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How To Meet New Friends In A New City

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Planning, hunting for rentals or real estate, packing, cleaning, hauling, taping, painting – all on top of your day job? Meeting friends at a course ensures that you have at least one thing in common – the desire to learn about that particular subject. How did you meet new friends? Not exactly a walk in the park.

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Meet a Reader | Kim from Iowa

The Frugal Girl

Today we’re meeting a Midwestern reader who only occasionally masquerades as Mrs. Potato Head. ? We rented the scaffolding for $50 from Menards so I could finish this massive painting project. I also smiled when I saw you painting high up in the foyer. My husband is an engineer and we’ve been married for 21 years.

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

Today we’re meeting a reader who is an artist, a homeschooler, a boy-mom, and a renter by choice. My hobbies range from reading to painting, pen-and-ink drawing, cooking/baking, and writing. And art supplies: I like to paint and draw, so every now and then I splash out. Hello, everyone! Here’s Karen: 1.

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Meet Jackie. She and Her Husband Paid off $147,000 in Debt | Debt Free Stories

Family Balance Sheet

I quit my job to focus on my own stuff (blogging, painting, rental property, my iPhone app, writing Kindle books, etc.). I think I even announced it during a meeting at work. We both like to read, play Ingress, and do various other geeky things. Quitting my job is one of the things being debt free has enabled us to do.

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Book Nook - Pericles and Aspasia

Motherhood Moments

In a world of hierarchies, they meet when he is at the top, in Athens after a military campaign and she arrives as little more than flotsam cast up on Athenian shores. She has written and spoken widely on topics of Greek art and archaeology and on European painting, particularly on van Gogh, Courbet, and David.

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My Magical December

Shereen Travels Cheap

I dressed the tree in "gingerbread" holly leaves, cookies, macarons, peppermints, and topped it with a giant Bertie Botts Every Flavour Bean box with cascading beans coming out of it, which I made myself with foam clay, then painted, and attached to wire lights, so they would look like they were coming out of the open box.

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