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APRIL 10, 2014

I understand that finding a New York City apartment with the perfect mix of location, cleanliness, safety, and price is difficult, but if you want to live here long term, you have to be willing to make concessions and find a sustainable balance. I found out that the rent on this studio was $2,400/month.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

No, it’s not a new Special Forces group in the United States military…but it does sometimes occur under the cover of night, in secret, by groups of men and women.

Gardening 213

Gardening Garden Flowers and Plants Los Angeles 213

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 4, 2014

There are many popular destinations that are worthwhile, such as New York and Cancun. In the “to” field, you can input “Anywhere” and it will list all of the destinations by price. Check Out Some Travel Blogs. However, there are also a whole bunch of amazing places in the world off the beaten path.

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Vacation Flights Cancun Travel 170

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 25, 2014

It doesn’t all carry over (some employers may allow a grace period into 2015 or allow you to carryover $500, according to the New York Times ). Use up your 2014 flexible spending account money. Use it or lose it. What would you advise folks to do before the year ends? Roth IRA Conversions? Better Wait and See.

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December Taxes Converse Money 178

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JULY 30, 2014

Alcohol was dirt cheap in New Orleans, and transportation was a very small line on our budget in New York City. I just recently returned from a trip to Southern California, where we stayed the entire trip for $50 (the AirBNB cost for our last night there). Thanks, couch surfing! After all, you’ve got to eat!

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Saving Money Money Food New York City 187

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

In 1923 Levy sold it to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation of New York. His work was continued by his nephew, after a devastating return to a working farm during the civil war after the Confederate army seized it and sold it to someone else. It took long law suits to get the property back to James Monroe Levy after the war ended.

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Personal Finance Finance 2005 Debt 186

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 29, 2014

Living in New York City, sticking to a vegetarian lifestyle has been quite easy. While I don’t seek to convert meat eaters, I think we can all stand to have a little more “veg” in our lives. Meatless Mondays are a good start, as is a better understanding of vegetarianism in general.

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Financial Goals New York City Fuel Restaurant 172

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 6, 2014

Maybe a little more with New York City prices, maybe a little less in a small midwestern town, but all in all, I know $8 is standard. I love that when I go to Chipotle and order a burrito I always know it’s going to cost me around $8. Unfortunately, not everything in life is as transparent and defined as the cost of Chipotle.

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Price Insurance Bills New York City 206

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 23, 2014

Trying new gives you something to look forward to. A study reported in the New York Times agreed with me. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!”. Anticipation, for me, has always been ¾ of the fun.

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Building Vacation Activism Travel 169

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 17, 2013

The AARP article Fix What’s Broken, For Less claims that there are multiple repair cafes in the USA now, including some in New York City, Seattle, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Detroit and elsewhere. Why join this movement? Actually repairing a broken item yourself will give you a nice sense of accomplishment.

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Repairs San Francisco Radios Garage 214

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 7, 2014

The largest loan company, Lending Club, is getting ready to issue stock on the New York Stock Exchange and the media are already all over the story. (Photo credit: Wikipedia). If you haven’t already heard about peer lending, it’s likely that you soon will. Online lending has jumped over the last year.

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Debt Personal Finance Finance Credit 188

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 16, 2013

The study consisted of two groups; one read the New York Times in print form while the other read the same edition of Web-Times. A thought provoking finding came out of a study conducted earlier this year at the University of Oregon by Arthur D. Santana, Randall Livingstone and Yoon Cho.

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Magazine and Newspaper Subscriptions Green Paper Magazines 201

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 13, 2014

My recent good times included driving across the country to move from Utah to Pennsylvania, a trip to New Orleans for FinCon, a day trip to New York City, and an overnight business trip to Kansas City. I’ve done a lot of traveling lately. It’s been a little crazy, and each trip has been different from the others.

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Travel Making Kansas City New York City 180

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JUNE 14, 2013

This article on WEB MD (the source my doctor recommends for medical information) quotes Matthew Ebben, PhD – a certified sleep specialist at the Center for Sleep at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and assistant professor of psychology in neurology at Weill Cornell Medical College as saying: “Whether it’s 1 a.m.

Debt 218

Debt Psychology At&T Watches 218

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MARCH 24, 2013

Consumer reports summarizes that in this comment: In the end, if one spouse invests aggressively while the other is more moderate or conservative, that’s OK, says Dawn Brown, a financial planner in New York City. You just have to look at your entire portfolio to make sure it’s allocated for your long-term goals.

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Financial Goals Goals Money Real Estate 222

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 31, 2013

The best trips my husband and I have had to New York City are those when we plan one morning thing, one afternoon thing, and one evening thing. Don’t try to cram in a bunch of stuff. Either plan a longer trip, or prioritize what you want to do most, and do those things.

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Travel Cruises Cruise New York City 200

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 14, 2013

It’s Time to Hit the Reset Button in the New York Times online Peter Bregman, author of “18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done” said: “We have a momentary feeling of wanting to escape what’s difficult or boring, so we jump out,” he says — hence the appeal of e-mail and shopping Web sites.”

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Phones Work Tools Psychology 211

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

New York City’s Rockefeller Center ceremony is one of the biggest. Pretty much every community in North America puts up a city tree. Each one typically has a ceremony to light up the tree, complete with entertainment and much holiday spirit. I’ve never seen a charge to attend a tree lighting ceremony.

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Inexpensive Activism Holiday Home and Garden 100

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MARCH 28, 2013

If your child is 16 or older, they can tour the New York Fed vault. Richmond Virgina’s Fed has a tour called The Fed Experience. In California, those 16 and older can take a tour in either San Francisco or Los Angeles. In Washington DC, the Bureau of Printing and Engraving offers tours.

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Kids and Family Money Kansas City Kids 222

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 17, 2015

” But what if you live in New York City instead of Wichita KS? Cost of living is higher in some areas than others, causing companies to pay more and more of your salary to go towards necessities.

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Polls New York City Wichita Debt 100

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JULY 1, 2012

Google launched the product in 2009, and some (including the New York Times ) started worrying about whether Google’s service would wipe out the competition. I don’t know if that is common or not however. Other options exist for ‘free’ or low cost phone calls.

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Phones Phone Service Skype Computers 228

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JANUARY 30, 2017

The New York Daily news reported that wife of Yankee ball player Alex Rodriguez’s wife ran up credit card debt of $100,000 when she found out about a dalliance between he and Madonna. During the divorce proceedings he claimed his soon to be ex-wife indulged in revenge spending when she found out about the affair.

Money 100

Money Camping Equipment Bank Banking 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

According to a New York Times article last December, there are a bunch of us that have artificial trees – me included. If you celebrate Christmas, you probably decorate one or more trees and display them in your home, shop or place of business. Do you use artificial trees or live cut real ones? Why I Bought an Artifical Tree.

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Christmas Real Estate Cycle Re-use 181

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APRIL 23, 2013

The events I chose were: 1920′s Charles Lindbergs New York to Paris flight. Then I found a sheet just full of fancy shapes in black and white. This would go at the top of the bottle’s label to identify the decade the bottle represented. 1930′s Amelia Earharts disappearance. 1940′s Victory in Japan day.

Making 187

Making Paper Wine Friends And Family Sale 187

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

However, in most instances, companies that declare bankruptcy are unable to meet with the requirements of the NASDAQ or the New York Stock Exchange. Should the company choose to use Chapter 11, the company’s securities can continue to trade. But they may still be able to trade in platforms such as the Pink Sheets or the OTCBB.

Debt 185

Debt Money New York Giving 185

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 10, 2017

As noted by the New York Federal Reserve in a report from 1999 called How Important Is the Stock Market Effect on Consumption? Wages and salaries increased $38.6 billion in April, compared with an increase of $30.7 billion in March – according to that same report. Why are we spending more? The wealth effect.

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Spendthrift Economical Consumer Recession 100

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

According to BankRate Adding up the Cost of Home Schooling “Clive Belfield, professor of economics at Queens College, City University of New York, estimates that the cost for parents who keep a careful accounting is about $2,500 for a family’s first child and slightly less for the next one or two home-schooled kids.”

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May Education Parenting Student 188

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NOVEMBER 11, 2012

The Giving Itself” by Tara Parker-Pope in the New York Times online health section, Pope notes that: “psychologists, anthropologists, economists and marketers [are] all weighing in. We’ve all heard that it is better to give than receive. As it turns out, giving just may be a hard wired survival technique for humans.

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Gifts Holiday Giving Friends And Family Sale 189

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

Engineers play a particularly important role including those who provide mechanical engineering services in Chicago , New York, and other cities throughout the world. Michael Tobias, the founder and principal of New York Engineers, specializes in sustainable building technology and is a member of the U.S.

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Home Building Green Plumbing 130

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AUGUST 8, 2013

” The New York Times article from 2009 called In Month of Giving, a Healthy Reward backs this up with citations of multiple studies showing various health benefits of giving. In another study, the brain’s pleasure centers lit up when people made check marks next to a list of organizations to which they wanted to donate.”

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Giving Economy Evolve Donation 220

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JUNE 24, 2012

In one experiment, neuroeconomist , Paul Glimcher of New York University wanted to see what it would take for people to willingly delay gratification. Unfortunately, most of us lose this skill when we have to make our own decisions as adults. He gave a dozen volunteers a choice: $20 now or more money, from $20.25 to $110, later.

Money 213

Money Activism Credit Debt 213

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

’” (The New York Times). I think every birth should be celebrated. You wouldn’t give your first child a bar or bat mitzvah and not your second or third, so why is a shower any different?’” I would argue to Ms. Gerstein that a shower is essentially for the mother.

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Baby Reuse Mom Kids and Family 167

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 17, 2015

Even the New York Times acknowledges that: As boomers join the ranks of grandparents, many are financing vacations for their children and grandchildren. We Baby Boomers are fueling the travel industry and many of us are taking our extended families along on our vacations.

Vacation 100

Vacation Family Grandchildren Kids and Family 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 4, 2013

The broker (or online system) may send it to one of several stock market exchanges (such as the New York Stock Exchange or a regional stock exchange) or it may go to a ‘market maker’ A market maker is a third party who buys and sells stock and these firms sometimes pay your broker an extra penny or so per trade to get their orders.

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Fair-Trade At&T Emergency Fund Cycle 188

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 1, 2014

I want affordable, healthy, and vegetarian- a shockingly difficult combination- even in New York City. Any time we go out to eat and don’t have a specific place in mind before leaving the house, it turns into a frustrating process. So we walk around, from menu to menu, as I try to find that perfect balance.

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Frugal New York City Growing Politics 180