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The Cheapskate Guide to: Dallas

Looking for cheap Dallas travel tips? You're in the right place! Read on for cheap lodging, cheap food, and cheap things to do! #Dallas #cheaptravel #budgettravel #DallastraveltipsAre you looking to travel cheap in Dallas? Welp, you are in the right place, my friend. Today Dallas local Valorie clues us in to $7 dumplings, $37 lodging, and free art!

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How To Tell People Things They Don’t Want To Hear

How To Tell People Things They Don’t Want To Hear

Friends. Imagine, if you will, the following scenarios: 1. You're out on the town with your workmates, enjoying a drink at a bar you don't usually frequent. Out of the corner of your eye, you see your BFF's boyfriend canoodling with someone who is definitely not your BFF. There's no mistaking it - you're totally sure it's him, you're totally sure he's not 'just friends' with this girl, and...

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The truth about getting a good job without a college degree

The truth about getting a good job without a college degree

Can you get a good job without a college degree? Is that even possible? The university recruitment office would have you believe you can't. And for some people and some careers a four-year college degree (and the debt that goes with it) is 100% non-negotiable. But for many of jobs, that college degree isn't absolutely necessary. My best friend of 20 years dropped out of college and now has a...

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True Story: I’m a Roller Girl

True Story: I’m a Roller Girl

This is one of many True Story interviews in which we talk to people who have experienced interesting/amazing/challenging things. This is the story of Nikkee and her time as a roller girl. Tell us a bit about yourself! I'm a 23 year old Professional Writing student. I live in a small-ish college town in Indiana, although I'm from Australia (where the roller derby scene is also steadily growing!)...

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Mini Travel Guide: Northern England

Mini Travel Guide: Northern England

Looking for a travel guide to Northern England - land of rolling moors, milky tea, and the setting for Wuthering Heights? Luckily, local Kim is here to give us her best Northern England travel tips: Where to go, what to do, what to eat, and how to do it all cheaply! When Sarah asked me to write a mini travel guide for England I thought “well, that’s easy!”, being from the UK and all. Then I...

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32 New Things: Take A Student Out To Eat

32 New Things: Take A Student Out To Eat

Every year I make a list of new things I want to try - some of these things are hard, some are easy, some are shockingly mundane.  You can read about my previous exploits here.  This is the story of how I took one of my ESL students and her kiddos out to dinner at a restaurant for the first time ever.   Back in September of 2010, before I left St. Paul, Minneosota to trundle through...

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How To Self-Publish A Book This Year

How To Self-Publish A Book This Year

How do you self-publish a book? And more importantly how do you do it in a way that fun(ish), fast(ish), and won't totally consume your life? Today self-published author Theresa is going to tell us how she did it! Earlier this year, I found myself growing weary of my current lifestyle. Sure, I was living it up in my parent’s house, wallpapering my childhood bedroom with rejected job applications...

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