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8 Summer Date Night Ideas

Family Balance Sheet

If you have an ice cream maker at home, you can enjoy a cool dessert! Sometimes cheap eats can be the best dates. You each choose something for the other to find at a consignment, thrift, or vintage shop. Catch a free concert. If there are any local college campuses in your area, see if there are bands playing. Vintage shopping.

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Redefining Moderation.

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Today moderation is having whole wheat pasta with pesto for dinner with a glass of wine and a small square of chocolate for dessert after an otherwise healthy day of eating. What I used to think was “smart” spending, eating out a few times a week at cheap restaurants and frequenting local happy hours, is a now a total splurge to me.