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Alternatives to College

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I’m not sure that my two daughters-in-law would agree that you can get to the status of working as an RN without a 4 year degree (BSN) in nursing. It is a rigorous course of study and generally requires a year or two of post school working experience to get to the position you really want! It seems I started a trend!

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Book Nook: Become the Fire

Motherhood Moments

Using her own story of entrepreneurial success as well as interviews with ten other diverse and highly successful leaders, Elisa Schmitz presents ten actionable lessons for putting your personal power to work, with unstoppable results. I ended up talking about ideation, passion, hard work, perseverance, resilience.

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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. ? Eventually, when I was married and working at a library I ordered my own copy of the Complete Tightwad Gazette–and I still have it! Here’s Karen: 1. Biggest mistake ever.

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Gender Inequality in 2014

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Don’t work at some manual labor, you’ll sweat. We took Home Economics (translate that to cooking and sewing class) instead of shop. 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.

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Totally Money Blog Carnival #18 – 6 Ways to Save Money Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

You worked hard to get your excellent credit. Since IJ is more a believer of Austrian school of economics, he would have to say a resounding yes. Actually, she wanted to help her adult daughter buy a home. As a result, Pam started looking into getting a mortgage for her “second home” and then leasing it to her daughter.