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How We Frugal-ed in June 2023

Family Balance Sheet

When my husband hung a smart TV in the sunroom back in April, we started spending more time in the room–even our teenage daughters started hanging out with us. We are in what I call our “shovel season of life” Our oldest daughter leaves for college in the fall of 2024 and we have a big savings goal to hit before then.

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Lazy Saturday Reads: Saving Grace, Shore Lights And More

For the Mommas

Organized by decade and by the cookbooks that shaped the author’s life, Tasting Home takes readers on a journey through the cuisines, cultural spirit, and politics of the 1940s through the 2000s inviting them to feel how deeply food is tied to identity, love, community, and political engagement.

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12 Kid’s Books to Celebrate International Women’s Day

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To this day, women make remarkable strides in science, medicine, politics, the arts, and other fields, but they do not always receive the same attention as their male counterparts. “Herstory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook Up the World” This book emulates a scrapbook, with different categories to organize the profiles.

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Experience Based Graduation Gifts

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

You could organize a look at multiple different careers. Point them to a variety of summer job types – such as working in a national park ; on a construction crew; on a ranch; in a factory; on a cruise ship or tanker; as a political party worker; in marketing and etc. Tour de jobs. and help them figure out how to apply.

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Life Decisions

Nicoles Nickels

I would never undo the decision to marry because that eventually allowed me to have my daughter, the best child in the whole world (just in case she reads this). They were from all over the country and their educational focuses, their backgrounds and their politics were as varied as they were. Still sounds pretty geeky right?

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