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7 Ways I’m Curbing Impulse Spending Over the Holiday Weekend

January 20, 2020 by Penny 3 Comments
7 Ways I'm Curbing Impulse Spending This Holiday Weekend

There’s a scene in the movie Clueless where Alicia Silverstone’s character is accused of being aimless. She insists that she has direction, and is promptly chided, “Towards the mall!” That, friends, was me in a nutshell for years. Decades really.  I didn’t have any concrete financial ambitions or direction. And I shopped like it was … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Save Tagged: baking, consumerism, create, creating, creative, decluttering, impulse buys, sales, saving, shopping, spending

Frugally Awesome…or Awkward: Part 2

April 8, 2016 by Penny 27 Comments

In the last installment of this series, I confessed to being a supremely awkward being. I wasn’t lying. Just when I thought I couldn’t embarrass myself any more in front of my bosses, I had my evaluation meeting. Halfway through the meeting, one of the beads on my necklace cannonballed down my shirt. Thankfully, we … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: awkward, creative, embarassing, frugal, funny, saving, school, work

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