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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

For 20 or so years I’ve been homeschooling my kids, and am now down to about 1 1/2 (one full-time homeschooler, and one doing College Credit Plus with some support). 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.

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Factors to Consider When Accepting a Job

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

It was in the suburbs of New Jersey, across the bridge from where I was living in Pennsylvania. It was going to be a challenging job, not making a ton of money, working in West Philadelphia less than ½ hour from my apartment, travelling to Pittsburgh once a month and a pretty low salary with no real room for a raise.

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