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Touring the City on Less: Food Extravaganza

The summer and fall are great times to tour a fun city. Of course, you want to do it for less. Yesterday I shared the money-saving way to save on transportation around the city. If you missed that post, you can find it here. Today it is all about having a food extravaganza. Part of the fun of visiting a city is all of the great food that you can try. Most cities offer a variety of great food, different fusions and ethnic dishes, traditional and down home fare. It would be a shame to waste this opportunity because of … Continue reading →

Are Education Support Specialists Underpaid? You Decide..

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Public schools couldn’t live without them, education support professionals. Many times these support professionals are referred to as paraprofessionals, teacher associates, school bus drivers, cafeteria workers, custodians and school secretaries. These people help schools to run smoothly, assist students throughout the school day, get kids to and from school safely and ensure that breakfast and lunch is healthy, hot, and the lunchroom stays organized. The unfortunate thing about these positions is that they are often incredibly underpaid occupations. Many of the people in these positions often work more than one job throughout the year in order to support their families. … Continue reading →

Barefoot Contessa Gets Burned

Food Network star Ina Garten, a.k.a. the “Barefoot Contessa,” is feeling the burn, but it’s not from logging extra miles on a treadmill. Obviously. Rather, the celebrity chef got scorched earlier this week when she was forced to down a huge helping of humble pie during the latest chapter of her Make-a-Wish Foundation debacle. As you remember from my previous post, Garten got herself into quite a pickle last month when she TWICE turned down a 6-year-old cancer patient’s request to meet her. The highfalutin Food Network star was then virtually flogged by millions of fans, who took to the … Continue reading →

Not So Smart Business

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Tim Horton’s Coffee Shop Fires Single Mom for Giving Out a $.16 Doughnut–to a Toddler Yep, apparently her manager wanted to make an example of what not to do. Don’t be generous to customers’ children thereby encouraging them to come back but instead, tell the little tike that he doesn’t deserve a doughnut. Apparently a worker saw the toddler reaching for the doughnut from across the counter and just gave him one. Shame, shame–she didn’t pay for it and her manager fired her for stealing. Once the story broke the company offered her the job back (which she accepted) and … Continue reading →

Frugal Living Week in Review: October 15th Through October 21st

From saving money on meals to free flowers, it has been a mix of different money saving tips here in the frugal living blog, where you’ll find all sorts of ideas to make your money go as far as it can. That is important, especially now when oil prices are going up and the cold weather will be setting in for good in the next few weeks. And you really won’t want to miss our guest blogger at the start of her mission to save on groceries. October 15th Keeping Warm with Blankets Using blankets is a very frugal strategy. … Continue reading →

Humility in Short Term Missions Part 2: After the Teams Leave

If you did not read my blog yesterday about the teams from Somewhere, USA and Anywhere, USA this will not make much sense to you. If you have not read my blog on how churches should support short terms missions, it will seem as if I’m speaking against teams coming to visit us. Indeed I am not. However, it is more supportive to your host ministry if your team is mindful of a few things. Let’s take a look at something no short term mission team has ever seen first hand. . .what happens when they leave! After the Team … Continue reading →

Triathlon or Bust 6: Mental Gymnastics

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I once rode a bike about 200 miles from Seattle to Vancouver B.C. in two days. Not only was this a bit beyond my capacity and training, but it poured rain the entire time. My longest distance ever before the ride was 60 miles. At mile 72 on the first day I was in was could only be described as some sort of purgatory. I remember vividly feeling nauseated, chilled through, not sure my legs would keep turning, and pretty close to some sort of breakdown. I was riding with three companions, but had been alone for about 12 miles. … Continue reading →