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5 Ways to Save Money This Holiday Season (Without Disappointing Anyone)

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So, the holidays and all the cheerful “requirements” that come with it, from gift-giving for dozens of people to taking time off work, can just add another layer of stress in a season meant for joy and relaxation. Exhausted Americans are saying enough to the holiday extras. It’s time to have the talk and not feel bad about it.

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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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My suitcase was packed, my traveling clothes all laid out. There, we’d spend the holidays together, as a family, without the overgifting and overdecorating and overeating of a typical Christmas. My mom tried to help by encouraging me to like stuff that other girls my age liked: clothes, boy bands, teen magazines.

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22 Self-Improvement Gift Ideas for Personal Development Junkies

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Often, the holidays serendipitously morph into a time we reflect on the past year, to take stock of what and who we’re proud of and give thanks for how far we’ve come. With five designs to choose from, users have the option to wear it as a bracelet, necklace or clipped onto a piece of clothing such as a waistband.

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The Founder of Black Girl Ventures Gets Things Done

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It came in the form of a T-shirt line which got off on the completely wrong foot but led to her first major success. “It She and her mom hustled at events all over selling the clothing items and eventually made it into Essence magazine’s Holiday Gift Guide for a line of infant bodysuits. It sucked and nobody bought it.

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3 Companies That Give Back to the Community Year-Round

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This hashtag-driven holiday generated $3.1 Bombas co-founders Randy Goldberg and David Heath, however, launched a community-oriented company that, as of 2023, has donated 100 million clothing items. Bombas has also branched out into underwear and T-shirts—the second and third most requested items in homeless shelters.

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16 planet-friendly gift ideas, recommended by TED speakers

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The holidays are here — a time for family, friends and festivities. We asked TED speakers to share planet-friendly gift recommendations, and here are 16 ideas for a merry — and more sustainable — holiday season. . Most of us have enough stuff, so this holiday season, why not give a gift that will create a legacy?

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Podcast 116: The perils of storage space

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Most of my clients, indeed, most people I know don’t park in their garages because they’re full of stuff. In a lot of those cases, this means people paid good money to store things they weren’t even using and then …. So, I have one thing to say about renting outside storage space: don’t do it!

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