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Start Planning and Budgeting for Summer TODAY!

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Include everything from weekend trips to longer vacations, yard/garden projects, home renovations, kids’ camps, gear and clothing, and any other summer expense you might have. We like to start a backyard fire to roast marshmallows and invite friends over to enjoy the long summer day. Fun @ Home: Host a backyard S’mores party.

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Meet a Reader | JenRR from the Midwest

The Frugal Girl

After I had kids, I swapped that time to growing all sorts of interesting heirloom foods in my backyard. The same goes for things like clothes. If they‘d still fit, I’d be content to continue to wear my clothes from the early 2000s. I have given up on second hand kids’ clothing. Purple raspberries from my garden.

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Celebrating Our Earth One Change At A Time

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From composting and saving rain water to using cloth napkins and reusable grocery bags, I have made many changes in my life over the last 20 years. And I gave up on cloth diapers as soon as my babies started eating solid food. (I It was in downtown Pittsburgh at a park where the three rivers meet, if I remember correctly.

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Summer Fun Guide 2019

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Include everything from weekend trips to longer vacations, yard/garden projects, home renovations, kids’ camps, gear and clothing, and any other summer expense you might have. Fun @ Home: Host a backyard S’mores party. – Fire up the backyard fire pit and invite your friends and neighbors. Go camping in the backyard.

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