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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

And I am more conscious of eating leftovers and avoiding food waste. My mother grew up on a farm, and from her accounts my grandmother and grandfather (who also was a foreman at the local glass factory, along with being an independent farmer) were frugal, and sometimes times were tight. How has reading the Frugal Girl changed you?

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Nicoles Nickels

to Grandfather’s house we go; . I’m pretty sure I always sang it as Grandmother’s house, which is weird since we actually went to my Grandfather’s house for holidays. The day starts/started with my mother or me or now my daughter getting up and stuffing the bird and getting it into the oven.