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Shopping for the new school year
Most children are back in school or will be returning soon and families are still trying to adjust to the new, and much stricter Fall schedule. It's tough transitioning from summer vacation to getting up early every morning and getting everyone to th
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Re-purpose, refinish, recycle for less
Making changes in a home often comes with a hefty price, but it doesn't have to. There are ways to use old things in a new way, called re-purposing, changing old things to look new - that's refinishing and finding something used or broken and recycli
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Finding deals on eyeglasses
Having worn glasses since I was about five years old I'm very aware of how much quality frames can cost. Then when I found out my oldest, who's 19 now, needed glasses I had a renewed lesson on the price of glasses. That lesson was brought up again wh
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Testing tattoos
There are quite a few things on the list of things I want to do (my bucket list) that I think would be easy to just go ahead and do without thinking about it any further. There are also some things that would be quite permanent that I may want to mod
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Save on campus safety products
[caption id="attachment_377" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="(c) SecureOnCampus.com"][/caption] My oldest daughter went back to her college campus last weekend and one of the things I sent her back with was a cute little pink canister of pe
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Save on journals
I have a confession to make. I'm addicted to journals. I think it started when I was a child of about 10 years old because my brother gave me a journal for my 10th birthday. Well, back then it was a diary (and it had a lock). I wrote all of my import
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Picture perfect frames
It's inevitable. You start moving something around on a shelf, decide it would look nice with a photo, pull out loose photos, realize you meant to put some in albums and frames then an entire new distraction project begins. That's exactly what happen
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Move-in specials
The end of the summer and the beginning of the fall brings a lot of changes. Not only in the weather, but in the lives of our children. Students are going away and returning to college, and are in the market for items that will make their lives easie
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Load up on labels
This is the first year I've been so unprepared when my children started school this week. One day right before we were rushing out of the door, I had grabbed a permanent marker and was scribbling my middle daughter's name on her jacket. When my oldes
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Stock up on school uniforms
Kids have started school or will be returning to school and there is so much to do to get them ready. One major expense is clothing. Even if your child is going to a school that requires uniforms they may need a larger size because of a growth spurt
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