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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

Our mom stayed home to raise us kids; she went to work part-time in the local school system after both my brother and I were in school. My dad was a blue-collar worker – a machine operator on the railroad who sometimes got laid off for periods of time in the winter. What’s one thing you splurge on? How about two things?

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50 Best Small-Business Ideas – NerdWallet

Savings Corner

You’ll need access to a commercial kitchen, a part-time staff of servers and a couple of assistant cooks to start. Craft brewery Craft breweries, aka microbreweries, are booming in the United States—in fact, 98% of operating breweries in the U.S. Alternatively, you could develop apps for consumers.