When we married and graduated, there was a recession happening in our country as well. We were married in 1992 and looked for our first “real” or “career” jobs in 1993.

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What is going on is that my life is in many ways a stunning example of what is seen on the news almost every night right now with regards to the recession and difficult economy. My husband and I have filed bankruptcy, lost our house, and car. We are starting over financially.

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I have numerous blogs in my Google reader and I have not done an updated blogroll in some time.  Instead of listing the blogs I like in 1 post, I have decided to break it into categories.  Thanks to a question from @lilthislilthat on Twitter, I have decided to post my favorite frugality blogs today.  [...]

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It’s not too early to start picking up Christmas gifts. In fact, I usually start making my Christmas gift giving list in about September and am always on the lookout for inexpensive but cool Christmas gift ideas. Just a few minutes ago I came across two cool & inexpensive Christmas gift ideas that I want [...]

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// –> // –> // –> // –> // –> // –> // –> I searched high and low to find these companies, groups, and charities that are either giving away free school supplies to people in need, holding sweepstakes in which you can win free school supplies, or sending out free sample school supplies. [...]

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