By PennyRay(view all posts by PennyRay)
at 12:04PM Thursday August 5, 2010
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Loose Change
Beauty sells. This fact is evident when evaluating advertisements for everything from designer jeans to fast food. Ask yourself, 'when was the last time I saw an unattractive person in a commercial?' According to the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, this "state of beauty" in the U.S. has fueled a cosmetic industry that performed 10.2 million surgical and nonsurgical procedures in 2008.
The most frequently performed nonsurgical procedure was Botox injections.
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By AngelaColley(view all posts by AngelaColley)
at 11:00AM Thursday February 9, 2012
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Money Saving Tips
photo courtesy of Mom Smackley at FlickrI tend to hold on to
clothes until they're falling apart – stains on the cuff, rips at the
seam, and faded. In that condition, I don't feel right donating them to a
charity shop. But I also don't feel right just tossing old clothes in
the trash and adding to our ever-growing landfills. So I end up with
bags of unwanted clothes taking up space in my closet.
Recently
I stumbled across the bags while I was spring cleaning. Instead of just
tossing them back in the closet and forgetting for another year, I
decided to do find a way to re-purpose the clothes. Turns out, old
clothes have plenty of new uses, and I've saved a bunch of money reusing
something to boot.
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By AlisonGary(view all posts by AlisonGary)
at 9:56AM Monday January 9, 2012
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Shop Smarter
With the start of each new year, there is a whole new list of hot fashion trends. Weeding through the crazy, the unwearable, and the flash-in-the-pan fads, here are some trends that I believe will be big in 2012 and are also quite wearable.
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