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How to Pick A Career

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Dr. John Krumboltz, Professor of Educational Psychology at Standford University studies how people choose careers. I majored in Psychology (liberal arts), graduating in the early 70’s. I didn’t even realize that most jobs required a doctorate in Psychology to really use the knowledge in a career.

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Financial Lessons from The Hunger Games

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Neighbors expect that you will keep the exterior of your home and yard looking acceptable according to their standards. We are after all, social animals, genetically and psychologically geared toward being part of a group. In the neighborhood. The wife expects the family to take a vacation each year.

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Why Use Cash?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

She envisioned me running out of gasoline and not being able to get home. Either I would be walking or using my last quarter in the pay phone to call home and beg someone to come get me. We took a day trip to a small town in our area several years ago with our grown son and daughter-in-law. They had no cash. We bought lunch.

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Find out how Maureen Paid off $79,540 in Credit Card & Student Loan Debt

Family Balance Sheet

I’m single, have a grown daughter, I’ll soon be a grandmother and I’m a care taker to my elderly mother. Boring I know, but I’m a home body so it works for me. in student loan debt that was a combination of my master’s degree and my daughters undergraduate degree. Like I said previously I want to pay off my home.

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Sunday Reads 7/27: Being Anti-Social, A Daughter’s Place And More Books

For the Mommas

A Daughter’s Place by C J Carmichael. She and her daughter, Nicole, have scraped by in the city for the past eight years, but when Libby finds out Nicole is being bullied and under-performing at school, she decides it’s time to swallow her pride. Fresh Doubt by Eva Hudson. Free Stuff Freebies Kindle Ebooks'

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How To Get The Holiday Gifts You Really Want

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If so, you are among a majority of Americans – at least those who have had their own home for 10 or more years. Ariel Knafo and other researchers from the psychology department at Hebrew University in Jerusalem designed and conducted an experiment that showed that certain people actually have DNA specific to giving.

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A Crisis of Clutter!

Nicoles Nickels

It was a real struggle for me to maintain a well groomed home when my daughter was younger and before I divorced. But once other people moved out of my home, the clutter bug bit me hard. There are probably a couple of psychological reasons for it.

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