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The Cheapskate Guide To: St. Louis

Can you do cheap St. Louis? Yes! Click through for from-a-local tips on cheap lodging, cheap things to eat, and cheap things to do in St. Louis!
Can you travel cheap in St. Louis? Is there a way to enjoy barbecue and the arch without breaking the bank? Of course! Luckily, we’ve got a local to share all the best St. Louis budget travel tips! Read on!

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Notes From The Road: Expectation Management

Notes From The Road: Expectation Management

When I'm in America (or any western country, really) I'm one of those pain-in-the ass Virgos who strides around crowing about high expectations and how you get what you expect from people and how you live with what you tolerate and on and on etc. Yes, it is approximately as annoying as it sounds. My BFF is a very patient person. And even though I've spent a the majority of the last ten years...

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How To Move In With Your Beloved and Not Kill Them

How To Move In With Your Beloved and Not Kill Them

This guest post comes to us via the lovely and talented Corrine of Frock and Roll fame. You should pop over to her blog for inspiring posts on career, style and life. They love you, you love them, and quite frankly, you’re growing the teeniest bit tired of being entwined in the tiring dance of hauling your belongings between their place and yours every weekend.. so kapow! It’s decided! You’re...

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True Story: I Survived An Unstable Childhood

True Story: I Survived An Unstable Childhood

This is one of many True Story interviews in which we talk to people who have experienced interesting/amazing/challenging things. This interview is particularly close to my heart be Brooke is one of my closest friends from high school. We spent so, so many Friday nights together drinking coffee at the roadside cafe and discussing two certain boys that we loved in a way that only 17 year olds...

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5 Ways To Break Out Of A Super Boring Winter Style Rut

5 Ways To Break Out Of A Super Boring Winter Style Rut

This guest post on winter style comes to us via Sally at Already Pretty. If you live in the northern hemisphere – and especially if you live in the northern reaches of the northern hemisphere– you know that winter has only just begun. Sure, we’ve been enduring cold temps and oppressive darkness for several months now, but we’re entering the true long haul here at the beginning of January. The...

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What’s On Your Future Resume?

What’s On Your Future Resume?

Guest blogger ALEXANDRA FRANZEN has been lauded as "Spock, but with a sense of humor. And better hair." At the mo', she's co-writing a digital book called "Lifescripts for Hustlers." Contribute your "I-dunno-what-the-eff-to-say" story, and get a copy of her Self-Promotion Toolbox as a "muchas gracias" gift. Wanna know a scandalous little secret? I’ve got two resumes: an active resume, and a...

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True Story:  I’m on Broadway

True Story: I’m on Broadway

What's is like to work on Broadway? To have a lead role in a nationally-touring production that evvvvveryone has heard of? Helene Yorke (aka Glinda in the touring production of Wicked) tells us all about it. Fascinating stuff! Can you tell us about your background? My background was in ballet, actually. I started at the age of three, and discovered ten years later that it was stressing me out,...

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