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Growing up in the 1950?s

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Ours was smaller (about 700 square feet) – 2 bedrooms (my brother and I shared one and my parents the other), a kitchen and a living room, No basement or garage. On Halloween we did a trick for our treat inside of a neighbors house, without our parents around and got homemade goodies to eat as a treat.

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Nutrisystem. Week 8 Nicole, Week 5 Jamie, #NSNation

Nicoles Nickels

I say pretty much because on Friday I had lunch at the conference. It’s so much easier at home when I can control more how my food is cooked but eating out is a part of life! Don’t worry about him though, he eats all my omelets! Is it bad that I ate my allotment and Jamie’s allotment of these 2 items?

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

Back when I was engaged and living on my own for the first time (I lived with my parents while in grad school to save on rent), I went to the library a lot and found a copy of the Tightwad Gazette. We also want to get our kids through college without them having loans to pay back, and we are 1 out of 4 on that so far! Not at all.

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