The Frugal Girl

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Thankful Thursday | with a bad attitude

The Frugal Girl

This week, I am thankful: that Lisey is safely back in Hawaii Her airline doesn’t have flights to and from an airport here, so she had to fly into and out of JFK in New York City. There’s room for both. I talked to our own Rose for advice, because I knew she had to have traversed this path before.)

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Thankful Thursday | I am not qualified

The Frugal Girl

But here is what I will say: Yesterday, I read an email from the New York Times with pictures of the hostages and stories of what is going on, and tears immediately sprang to my eyes. furniture painting! nursing school!). Conflicts in the Middle East, though? Decidedly outside my range of knowledge.

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

My dad grew up upper-middle-class; his father was a chemist and they lived close enough to New York City to take the train in and see the shows, where my great-grandfather worked on Broadway. She said she wanted the floor to just open up and swallow her, she was so mortified!). Their motto was, if we have the cash, let’s do it.

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