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Foods You Need to Buy Organic, and Foods You Don’t

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This year, they tested 32,000 samples and found pesticides in two out of every three samples. These foods contained the least amount of pesticides in them and tests found low total concentrations of pesticides: Avocados (The cleanest food tested, with only 1 percent of samples showing any detectable pesticides.). Sweet Corn.

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How To Update Your Wardrobe For Less

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Check out Sample Sales. If you’re into designer labels, wait for the sample and trunk sales to stock up. Spend the evening trying on eachothers’ discards. Whatever is left unclaimed at the end of the evening gets donated. It’s a win-win-win.

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How To Get A Job With Little Or No Work Experience

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Create Your Own Work Samples. This can work well for creative roles and you do not need necessarily need to flag up that these samples were not created ‘on the job’ unless specifically asked. You might have demonstrated them in other areas of your life without even realizing.

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Summer Camp Activites for Kids for a Winter Business Opportunity

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If the kids are in, then during Money Camp, we will cook sample cookies and other treats, create business cards and order forms and send the samples along with the literature out to our considerable family units. But instead of wreaths, I want to start with Christmas goodies sold only to family members.

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Female Products – The Budget Killer

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Look for those free samples – My wife finds free samples everywhere – mainly at stores and in magazines as a promotion for the release of a new product. Get these samples and you’ll already be spending a little less at the grocery store. This way, you’ll be less shocked when that item shows up on the grocery list.

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It’s Time to Plan Your Frugal Spring Garden

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Your state university most likely has an agricultural extension to which you can submit samples to be analyzed (for a fee – ours is$15 per sample). Sometimes free samples arrive with the flower catalogs as well. Perhaps you find a wild flower that you can dig up or get seeds from to put in your garden.

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Environmental Jobs

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They’ll take soil and water samples to verify the number of resources and their corresponding qualities to ensure the land is depleted with human use. If they work with farmers or ranchers, they’ll recommend the ideal amount of livestock or crops that their property can naturally support. Environmental Policy Specialist.