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Meet a Reader | Beth from VA

The Frugal Girl

She’s welcome to live at home for the next few years if she’d like so she can save the bulk of her salary. I was especially close to my maternal grandmother, though, and any financial education I got came from her. But that is probably because my knife skills aren’t quite up there with my grandmother’s!

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

My mother grew up on a farm, and from her accounts my grandmother and grandfather (who also was a foreman at the local glass factory, along with being an independent farmer) were frugal, and sometimes times were tight. My grandpa would shoot squirrels when they needed meat, and they had a big garden and my grandmother baked her own bread.

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