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Gift Idea To Bookmark: Capsul Jewelry

Cheap Chica's Guide To Style

Enter Capsul Jewelry , a brand that combines two of women’s favorite things: jewelry and sentiment. I signed my son’s name, sent it to Capsul and received the beautiful necklace seen above. After all, does she really want another candle or set of wine glasses? Probably not. ” What could be more special?

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Should You Learn To Sew?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Back in the 19th century, the occupation of seamstress was one of the few open to women. I made a set of short drapes for my son’s room by simply putting a hem all around the fabric and attaching a tape at the top that let me insert hooks that made the pleats form. Will it end up saving you money or costing you money in the end?

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

I’m fifty years old, married almost 25 years, with four sons of various ages ranging from all grown up to still-working-on-it. ? For 20 or so years I’ve been homeschooling my kids, and am now down to about 1 1/2 (one full-time homeschooler, and one doing College Credit Plus with some support). But I had to SHOP for clothes.

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Meet a Reader | Biker Liz

The Frugal Girl

My degree is in mechanical engineering, but I’m just starting a transition to nursing – before I got pregnant with my son, I was working as a nursing assistant while my husband finished grad school, and planning to go on to nursing school. For me, being in the kitchen and making food for people is an act of love.

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A clean-the-inbox Q&A

The Frugal Girl

My son & I currently share a plan and I know that there has to be a comparable plan that would be less expensive than AT&T. I’d say the theme of these books is something like…women breaking free from oppressive, fundamentalist religious sects, where they could not be properly educated or have freedom and agency.

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Gender Inequality in 2014

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In many countries, women’s rights were pretty non-existent. Cultural and historical mores allowed encouraged men to beat their wives, sell women for sex, marry off their daughters as children or just flat out get rid of the female babies. We still debate the right of women to control their own bodies.

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Cutting the Gender Wage Gap

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Every year we find that women are still earning less than men. At my last employer, unbeknownst to me at the time, many of the executive level officers all attended the same private college. So, if you want to make as much as the big BOYS, take the steps that you can control and consider the following actions. Career Tips'