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Service: Simple Ways to Clip For a Cause

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A couple of months ago, I told you about Jessica Burns, who clips coupons not only to save money on groceries for her family, but to fill shoebox-sized Christmas gifts for needy people around the world for pennies on the dollar. Let me share with you a few more inspirational…

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Five Easy Ideas for Making Change

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Someone once said, "If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies." Change is an important part of life, both on a personal and global level. Here are a few bite-size ideas to help change things for the better in your neck of the woods: Five Bite-Size Ideas for…

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Emergency Preparedness: Not as Hard as You Think

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Let's talk emergency preparedness a little bit since this is National Emergency Preparedness Month. Do you tune out when talk of preparing for an emergency comes up? Chances are you do. According to a 2009 FEMA Citizen Corps survey, almost half of the Americans surveyed didn't have supplies set…

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Help Others Find Happiness with a “Bookless Book Club”

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Benjamin Franklin once said, “The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to find it yourself.” We are none of us entitled to happiness, but we are all equipped with the basic resources to pursue it. How we choose to find it,…

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A Little Tip for Helping the Big Problem of World Hunger

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All those who were told when they were little to eat all the food on their dinner plate because there were starving children in China, raise your hands. I, who repeatedly heard that, was too young to appreciate the underlying message of such a statement, which was that we should…

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10 Simple Ways to Teach the Benefits of Recycling

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There is nothing like a visit to your nearest landfill to get a feel for the need to recycle. Having in sight huge mounds of trash that, though buried, still reek definitely puts in mind the need to keep those mounds from getting bigger, because you know they're going…

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