thefrugalvegan

thefrugalvegan

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12 years ago @ The Everyday Minimalist - Simplify Your Life: Fi... · 1 reply · +1 points

This is great advice, thank you! I am seriously considering a Questrade account which I will do if I get a good paying longer contract and if I do I will use your referral ID if I do. :) Thanks!

13 years ago @ Fabulously Broke in th... - Consulting: The quick ... · 1 reply · +1 points

This is a great post. Thank you! I actually work as a temp, a "career" I chose when I was 32 after being tired of jobs I had been in. I make very little money but love moving around from job to job and I am always happy and even won an award from my agency. With my qualifications, people always wonder why I don't get a fancy job making 3 times more money but I'd rather be happy and frugal than miserable and rich. Somehow, some people still don't understand this. Crazy isn't it? :) Follow your passions!
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13 years ago @ The Everyday Minimalist - Fast Food Ads versus R... · 1 reply · +1 points

Oh wow I had fun reading this post! For one, I am off to Paris again in March and was planning on going to Laduree but now I might save some cash and go to McCafe for my macaroon fix! Thank you for the heads up! :) Also, thank you for posting pics of actual burgers alongside the advertising burger pics...wow, the real ones look SO awful. (and I'm not saying this because I am vegan). It's amazing to see these pics side by side. I also eat ethnic fast foods (thai noodles, ethiopian, rotis...) and am rarely seen in North American fast food places.

13 years ago @ Style on a String - IN PICTURES: Packing f... · 1 reply · +1 points

I also travel quite a bit and we do yearly trips overseas. I am a light packer but can definitely use some of these tips! My problem is that I pack things and once I get there I don't want to wear some of it. Argh. Dresses are a must for me, the ones you dont need to iron, they are my travel saviors! I bring a lot less jewelry than I used to, less than what you have but now I see that it's a way to accessorize various outfits too, which means less clothes packing. I love the idea of using the belts and sashes to change up an outfit too, I think I might use that tip! I bring a really small suitcase for 3 weeks (one people usually use for a long weekend). As far as toiletries, I bring travel sizes and leave the bottles there at the end of the trip. We would also send boxes of food we would purchase in the Netherlands (where my husband is from) and ship it back to ourselves instead of carrying it in our luggage. Thanks for a great post and wicked photos of the outfits! :)

13 years ago @ Fabulously Broke in th... - How the heck do superm... · 1 reply · +1 points

AWesome article. Funny I was just having a conversation about this very topic the other day.

I am also a frequent eater. I need to eat every few hours. If I don't I start feeling dizzy and sick too. I usually keep a granola bar in my purse for emergencies too. I eat first thing in the morning (usually oatmeal, cereal or toast), sometimes even before I shower. I eat two snacks in the morning if I come into work early, then lunch, another snack (usually fruit) in the afternoon and a light dinner in the evening. I find I am ok not to eat as much at night if I am home but if I get the munchies I usually pop some popcorn.

I honestly don't know how these models eat one apple and probably smoke cigarettes all day to stop the hunger. I'd definitely pass out if I had to do that.

Some people think eating all day is bad, but it's very good. It supposedly increases your metabolism. I pretty much eat all day (though mostly very healthy foods) and I am a size 5-6. Skipping meals is actually a lot worse for your body!

14 years ago @ Fabulously Broke in th... - Why does it seem like ... · 0 replies · 0 points

I believe in this day and age many women cheat but are a lot more cautious about it. And it's rare that the man (assuming we are discussing hetero relationships for arguments sake) she is cheating with will try to sabotage it by going to the husband or partner she is with. This fact alone will help keep the secret.

How many times has a mistress threatened to go to the cheating guy's wife? Not all of them, but probably a healthy handful so I think it's that men just get caught more often than women. Men generally like to brag about conquests to friends but women would probably not even tell her closest friend if this was happening. The chances of the secret being kept by a woman are greater, just from what I've seen/read/heard.

I have seen an increase in women's cheating over the years, cheating in general which is the reason we are seeing a lot of non-monogamy articles pop up in the media in the past few years. I think monogamy (which didn't really exist before Christianity) is starting to be questioned by a lot of people, rightfully so. Even a few famous Hollywood couples have outed themselves as being openly non-monogamous. Monogamy may not be suited for most of us considering all the changes in society and the world becoming a lot smaller. We also live longer and we have different needs than we did even just 50 years ago.

All this being said, cheating happens with both sexes and there are probably a lot more women doing it than we can ever imagine. They just never get caught :D