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Adulthood is the goal

May 23, 2017July 18, 2011 by Shay

I often find myself thinking that in today’s world of hands on, feel good, kids first parenting that there is one key item that many of us are forgetting as parents. The goal is to raise healthy well-adjusted kids who become healthy well-adjusted adults. No matter how it feels at times, kids do grow up. …

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Categories Generation Y, Growing Up, Parenting, Random babble Tags life skills, raising kids, young adults 7 Comments

Nope, I’m not Amish just cheap

May 23, 2017April 16, 2009 by shay subscriber

I’m a city girl by ny ature despite the fact that I live in Maine, hell I was born in Chicago and spent almost 30 years there.  However after 7 years in Maine, I will admit that some “Maine” ways have crept in..Mainers by nature are a frugal lot. Folks in Maine will freely sit …

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Categories frugality, Money, Random babble Tags DIY, frugality, life skills, Mainers and frugalit

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