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Posts by Danielle

The Guide To Easy Student Living

Living as a student is something that can be pretty difficult; it’s going to be your first time living away from home, which means you’re going to have to pay rent, utility and buy your own food, as well as finding the time and money after your studies to be going out with your friends! Stereotypically, this is a very difficult time for everyone financially, but there are a few

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The Best Frost Resistant Vegetables For Your Garden

Garden enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting spring time, when they get the chance to prepare their gardens for bloom, map out its colors, and enjoy the sight of birds returning to the trees. It’s no wonder spring and gardening go hand-in-hand, yet you can easily keep your surroundings beautiful during fall and winter too – as long as you know what to plant. Image credit: Pexels While most plants prefer a

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Home Buying Help: Don’t Let Hindsight Fill You With Regret

Image source   Money isn’t the only thing you will need to spend a considerable amount of when it comes to buying your first home. You’ll also need to spend a considerable amount of time researching your purchase and all the little things that come off the back of it.  Ask anyone that has just been through their first house buying experience and they will all wear the same exhausted

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10 Ways to Cut Your Air Conditioning Costs

As the days get hotter, homeowners are looking to keep their homes as cool as possible. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, three-quarters of all homes own an air conditioner and these devices use up to 6% of all the electricity in the U.S. The annual cost of using the AC system piles up to $29 billion. This results in a lot of energy waste and carbon pollution, 117

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Five Minute Financial Fixes

No one has enough time anymore.   We’re all busy. Too busy to see our friends; too busy to do all the things we want around the house. The busy phenomenon has become so pervasive, there’s now a thousand and one oped pieces discussing why we’re all so busy. The snake is beginning to eat its own tail because, of course, we’re all far too busy to read them.  

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Find Jobs as an Owner Operator

If you are just starting out as an owner operator, or you only have a small fleet of trucks you manage, it can be difficult for you to land new clients and contracts. There are many people chasing after the same contracts as you are, and you cannot offer the volume and the range of a major trucking company. However, if you adjust your expectations and how you view this

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How To Choose The Right Bed For You!

Pixabay   We all know how important sleep is. Lack of it, and you’ll find yourself grouchy, tired, and unable to function your body and mind properly. – Not a good luck. The wrong bed results in all of the above, as well as being left with sore muscles and a bad back. All this can be avoided with these simple tips on how to choose the perfect bed.  

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5 Effective Options For Getting Yourself Out Of Short-Term Financial Difficulty

  When you find yourself in financial difficulty, it’s easy to panic. But when you do panic, you can find yourself getting further into trouble. On the other hand, you may be more likely to ignore the problem and pretend that it doesn’t exist. Either way, both solutions will not fix the problem. In fact, they can often make it work. So, instead, you need to take action. But at

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The Digital Careers You Might Want To Consider

We are beginning to live in the digital age where more things are online based these days. There is an abundance of information at the tips of our fingers waiting to be unveiled or indeed explored. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that more careers are becoming digital focused and there are a number of ways and career options you could be considered as your next move. I thought I

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Is Your Budget Ruining Your Life?

For the vast majority of people, there’s a pretty good chance that living on a budget is becoming a more and more significant part of everyday life. The sad fact is that the cost of living is constantly going up and very few people are in the position where their income is increasing to match it. Because of this we are all being forced to make our money go much

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