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Want to Save Money? Work with What You Have

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I bought hot curlers (they curled the ends but pulled out the fuzz), a straightening iron, and even a scary spinning contraption that was supposed to dry my hair while straightening it at the same time (but all it did was tangle and get stuck in my hair). In the summer months, this manifested into a mop of fuzz.

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Meet a Reader | Jennifer from Arkansas

The Frugal Girl

How did you get interested in saving money? Ironically, this happened at Christmas-totally out of the blue. I cut it in half & split that half between my kids’ college fund, spent $100 on myself as a Christmas gift, and I’m saving the rest for new tires within the next few months 10.

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The Cost of Personal Grooming

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

A study once conducted by members of the economics department at Elon University in North Carolina concluded (according to article Clothes and Personal Grooming Can Affect Earnings on Live Science ). that increased grooming time has a large, positive effect on minority men, a negative effect on women and no effect on white males. “.

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