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70Extreme Couponing vs. Practical Couponing: A Starter's Story and How-To
This hub discusses practical couponing, offers a few tips and pointers for getting started, and describes a realistic first experience with couponing which is quite different from the perspective offered in the hit TLC Show "Extreme Couponing."
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85Working Class Life in England in the 1930's
Working Class life in England in the 1930's. What life was like for a typical working class family in Birkenhead during the 1930's. A high instance of infant deaths due to poor conditions and and no free health service. Nothing was wasted every thing that could be would be recycled out of necessity. A hard life where families pulled together. Expectations were very different back then and everyone knew their place.
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71Scooter Heaven, Pt. I
I have a radio advertising client (Scott Ruetten of Ruetten Auto, Muscoda, WI.) who was trying hard to convince me to purchase one of his new line of motor scooters, a Chinese brand of gasoline-powered scooters called "Bronc". Failing to convince me...
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84Ghosts of the Great Depression - 1930s Poverty
Rochelle Frank’s Hub called Survival in the 1930's is an eye opening account of survival that many people born after 1960 probably cannot imagine -- Unless they were born into the poverty of the poorest Appalachian regions, the most destitute part of a rundown inner city, or a third world country. I have only a few stories to contribute.
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73People Surviving The Great Depression During the 1930's
How did people survive the Great Depression in the 1930's? They didn't have enough money to have a "financial situation", but somehow they managed to survive.
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69Practical gifts, for the poor and less fortunate, give love
All of us know or are related to those who are poor and struggling. There are ways to give and help, that give dignity and a wealth of goodness
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67A Glimpse From The Depression
What can be learned from the depression that can be applied to today's recession? Have people forgotten the simple things that can increase the quality of life without money?
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67How did people in your family save money in the 1930's? Any stories from Grandparents/Great-grandparents will help!
I'll tell you two stories from my mom's family. My mom was a girl during the Depression. First, the naughty one: My grandmother would buy my mom dresses but Mom wouldn't wear them other than to try them on....
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