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18 Black-Owned Online Businesses You’ll Love Supporting

Couponing 101

Buying from these 18 businesses owned by Black women can make you happy to indulge your shopping habit. Beauty Babez Body Bar makes artisan, handmade, vegan soaps. The Brownie Batter Coffee Scrub is an indulgent way to make your dull winter skin summer-ready. Sew Dope Creations. Bath and Beauty. Royal Sutton.

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

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. My mom cut coupons and sewed her own clothes and mine, as well. He says we were busy building the house and our careers and it was money well spent because it freed up our time.

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Gender Inequality in 2014

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We took Home Economics (translate that to cooking and sewing class) instead of shop. Forbes reported: ”According to new numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2012 full-time employed women earned just 80.9% High heels cause problems , make us look silly and make it hard to move, not to mention the health hazards.

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