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Meet a Reader | Gretchen from Oregon

The Frugal Girl

I can remember quite a few years in college and grad school when my part-time jobs juuuuust barely covered my expenses (and sometimes not even that!) My son with one of our baby goats I remember for many years looking at any recipe that asked for more than one kind of cheese and rejecting it right away.

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Free Kindle Books: Immortal Plague, Sherlock Holmes at the Varieties & More

For the Mommas

Check out these FREE Kindle editions from Amazon and start reading! Immortal Plague (The Judas Chronicles Book 1) by Aiden James: An archivist for the Smithsonian Institute and also a part-time operative for the CIA, no one would ever suspect the handsome ‘thirty-ish’ William is in fact the most reviled human being to ever walk the earth.

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Lazy Saturday Reads: Murder in Paradise, The Poisoned Rose and More

For the Mommas

Amazon’s Free Kindle books get updated hourly, so be sure to download them soon. To a corrupt chief of police intent on maintaining his power at all costs, part-time PI Declan “Mac” MacManus is a problem that must finally be addressed. Ray resolves to make things better in whatever time he has left. Ray dies that evening.

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Find out How Acadia & Her Husband Paid off $97,000 in Student Loans

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Today’s Debt Free Story is from Acadia. We have a 5 year old son and are in the process of adopting our 2 year old and 4 month old foster sons, making us parents of 3 boys! My husband works as an architect and I teach art part time at my son’s school. What inspired you to get debt free?

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Find out How Brian & His Wife Paid off $109,000 in Credit Card Debt

Family Balance Sheet

Today’s Debt Free Story is from Brian. We’re a family of five, including, me, my wife and 3 children: 15 year old fraternal twins and a 12 year old son. We’re a family of five, including, me, my wife and 3 children: 15 year old fraternal twins and a 12 year old son. What inspired you to get debt free?

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Do You Hate Your Job?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Needless to say, our relationship suffered, his health suffered and now he has a list of regrets about not being the father, husband, son, brother and friend he feels he should have been. We eventually alleviated the situation when I retrained for a high paying career and went to work full time (after those 10 years at home with the kids).

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

Our son is 29 and biological. Our mom stayed home to raise us kids; she went to work part-time in the local school system after both my brother and I were in school. My dad was a blue-collar worker – a machine operator on the railroad who sometimes got laid off for periods of time in the winter.