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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

We also like to have enough means to travel and visit family and friends, so being frugal in some areas helps us be generous in others. I’ve often wished to be able to go back in time and undo that house purchase, it would have saved our family so much trouble and money! Also, growing our own food.

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TV Time - Work It Out Wombats!

Motherhood Moments

, a new animated series for kids ages 3-6 produced by GBH Kids and Pipeline Studios , starring a playful trio of marsupial siblings—Malik, Zadie and Zeke—who live with their grandmother, Super, in their treehouse apartment complex. Super, their grandmother, is the Superintendent and unofficial “Mayor” of the Treeborhood.

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Music Minute: JD Shelburne - Away in a Manger

Motherhood Moments

Growing up in my hometown Baptist Church, Christmas music developed a strong passion in me during my early childhood years. Shelburne chose to release this as his first single for the holidays as a symbolic memory of growing up in Taylorsville, Kentucky on his family farm, where the house was filled with love.

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Meet a Reader | Ginger from Texas

The Frugal Girl

I’m a 53-year-old mother of 2 (grown) and grandmother of 4. My son and his family live in Montana. That’s easy, my mom and growing up in the PNW. I’m sorry to read of all the family losses you’ve experienced; it sounds like life has been tough in a lot of ways for you over the years.

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Making Snacking Delicious with Almondina and Giveaway

Nicoles Nickels

For generations his family loved his grandmother Dina’s most secret cookie, which she called Petit Gateau Sec. I got to try Almondina products at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival this year and was really impressed with the great flavors and the awesome crunch!

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s $29 Food Stamp Budget – I pay $30 a week no food stamps

Coupons Do Work

Actually I live on $30 a week and I have a family of four – a dog and my kids do activities. All I had to do was what my grandmother had taught me. I buy them on sale, with the exception the kids feet grow when there is no sale (for gym shoes). Heck, I actually survive on $30 bucks a week for the family.

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How To Get Your Kids to Clean Their Rooms – 6 Ideas

Coupons Do Work

I remember when my great grandmother was coming for a visit and my grandma (she raised me) said “I will show your great-grandma your bedroom mess if you don’t clean it” I didn’t clean it and the look on my great-grandma’s face, the disappointment on her face I have not forgotten. As they get older the list grows.

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