Penny For My Thoughts

Frugal Fannies is featuring clothing from Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and Free People this weekend.  I have yet to take advantage of my gift card there from Christms, I am planning checking it out.

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Sign up at Focusgroup.com!  I’ve done oodles of easy focus groups (beer testing-seriously) with them.

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Happy hump day!  Actually, my hump day was yeserday, but for the rest of you, two Freebies:
When the VS Pink Nation reaches 1 Million, there’ll be a freebie (oh, and there’s a printable coupon for a free fragrance sampler)
Join Friendly’s BestFriend of Friendly’s club, and get a coupon for a free sundae when you buy [...]

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I had to go get something notarized today at our local bank.  Now, our local bank hasn’t changed in years.  So I’m sitting there, and they have an ad for their twelve-month CD rate-1.16%.  OMG, let me get my check book.  Seriously, do they think people won’t check CD rates online?  Odd.
On a different topic, [...]

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If you’re looking for designer jeans at a good price, check out Building 19 in Norwood this Saturday, February 13.  They report they will have such big names as Seven for all Mankind, True Religion, Ed Hardy, and Diesel.  I’m not a huge Building 19 fan-the whole wifebeater brouhaha turned me off them something fierce.  [...]

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As I’ve mentioned before, I have PolyCysticOvarySyndrome (PCOS).  To keep my symptoms in check, I have an amount of money which I spent every month.
First and foremost, I take two prescriptions for it-an oral contraceptive and another med which controls my acne and facial hair  Fortunately, the contraceptive pill I am now, as well as [...]

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And I regret to say it gets a big meh from me.  It’s really cute (and now available at Sephora-it sold out on Urban Decay’s site very quickly).  However, in terms of being unique, it’s realy not that great-it’s Urban Decay’s usual shadows slapped with new Alice themed names.  What a muchness (and disappointment).
I also [...]

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I interview prospective applicants for my alma mater-I’m not going to say which, but suffice to say that I am not an oyster in a cloister.  I was very actively involved in my college application process, so it is interesting being on the other side of the table.
The best advice I could give anyone applying [...]

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Is on my coupon holder that I got at Target three years ago.  I carry it with me all the time, and it has more than paid for itself.  I actually bought a new one last night, as my old one was pretty beat up.
I use the sections as following:

Front section:  Store coupons, restaurant coupons, [...]

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And it’s not ye aulde Christmas isn’t in the presents wrapping, etc.  Nope, this lesson was about what you give, and how it’s perceived.  Tradition had dictated that LittleNephew would be receiving an ipod shuffle from me; however his older brother smugly stopped me at this by buying him an iPod shuffle for his birthday [...]

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