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Meet a Reader | Gretchen from Oregon

The Frugal Girl

We spend most of our time seeing friends and family, participating in our church activities or working on our property. I do a lot of our cooking from scratch which takes a lot of my time! As well as other “from scratch” things like my current main hobby of teaching myself how to spin yarn from our sheeps’ wool.

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Find out How Brian & His Wife Paid off $109,000 in Credit Card Debt

Family Balance Sheet

What are your hobbies? . I work full time in IT and my wife works part time in retail. It was all consumer debt spread over 5 credit cards. Where are you from? What do you and your spouse do for a living? We live in New York. I started my blog Debt Discipline to help keep us accountable while paying off our debt.

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Find out How Acadia & Her Husband Paid off $97,000 in Student Loans

Family Balance Sheet

What are your hobbies? My husband works as an architect and I teach art part time at my son’s school. We are very happy without all of the things that are being sold to us by our consumer culture. She writes about simple living, parenting and her family’s foster story at Fostering Simplicity. Where are you from?

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50 Best Small-Business Ideas – NerdWallet

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With the popularity of podcasts from newspapers and other media providers, private individuals have been able to jump on the trend—turning a hobby into a fully-fledged business. You’ll need access to a commercial kitchen, a part-time staff of servers and a couple of assistant cooks to start. are independently owned.