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Companies Want You to be Broke, They Make More Money that Way
This is something I realized not long ago. I knew that ads are designed to make you feel that you need whatever popular trend is en vogue, but what I hadn’t thought about until after I was out of consumer debt was that if you can’t afford the latest trends, they are all that…
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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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Craft & Quality Are Not Mutually Exclusive to Name-Brands
This is something that I wrestled with when I was younger, and the basis for my former blog, No Labels Living (thanks to the 10 people that read it(;). Because, the family I grew up in was image obsessed. We were more concerned with how we looked, to impress others, than how we treated…