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Expect More from Your Daughters

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

“ Did you know that in 2014, women working full time in the United States typically were paid just 79 percent of what men were paid, a gap of 21 percent?” We should expect more, not less, from our daughters and granddaughters in the work arena. Teach your daughters to mow, drill and fix the car.

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Meet a Reader | Beth from VA

The Frugal Girl

I live just outside of Richmond, VA with my husband, 18-year-old twin daughters, and our two dogs. I currently work part-time from home, mostly behind a computer. ” deer on my street One of my daughters has significant health issues that are largely invisible (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and dysautonomia, including POTS).

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

Our daughter is 24 and was adopted from Eastern Europe when she was one week short of a year old. He married the love of his life almost two years ago, so now we have a daughter-in-law, too. 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.

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How Krystal and Josh paid off $80k in 4 years!

Family Balance Sheet

works in outbound sales, and I teach part-time. working full time at a low-paying job and going to grad school full time, while my husband was working multiple jobs just to help us make ends meet. get better once I had my masters degree and could teach full-time. My husband. But we do love.

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Life Decisions

Nicoles Nickels

I gave up a full scholarship years ago to get married right out of high school because I was, well, young and in love. Time passed, and as a sometimes happens, we grew apart and eventually divorced. In retrospect I felt that I had lost an important time of my life – the college years.

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