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Moving Day: Finding Items You’ll Love & Knowing Yourself Better for It
I just moved two weeks ago. It was a stressful move and a heroic effort. My roommate and I moved two apartments worth of furniture in ten hours, and I was sore the next day, but otherwise the move went smoothly. I didn’t have a lot of furniture which helped, but this also meant…
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Home Ec: Why Don’t Schools Teach How to Run a Household?
I’m a social worker, and the population I work with are the chronically homeless. This means they’ve been homeless for 5 years or longer. Before I worked with this population, I viewed them mostly as lost causes. They seemed to me, so mentally ill, that there wasn’t anyway for them to come back. Or…