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Westerns Everyone Should Read

Westerns Everyone Should Read Reading is one of the best ways to escape one’s reality and find out what it would be like to walk in another person’s shoes. Luckily there is an ever-growing library of books that we are able to use as our gateway to this other world.

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Learning

Confessions Of A Lowbrow Fiction Fan

So much attention is given to certain works in the literary world, ones that have stood the test of time to cement their statuses as classics. While there’s something to be said for a book that’s survived so long and has become a staple in the academic world, I’m fully

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Gifts&Special Occasions

Tips For Baking With Your Children

In my experience, being an aunt has involved a number of things, like water fights, catching lightning bugs (fireflies, if you’re not familiar with the term), and decorating the porch with sidewalk chalk. But one of the most precious activities as an aunt, to me, has been baking with my

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Finance

Tax Preparation For Dummies

Tax preparation is certainly not something most of us look forward to, especially since income taxes account for 15 percent to 45 percent of an American family’s total annual income. Not only are income taxes expensive, they are also pretty complicated. This hesitation, coupled with confusion translates to late tax

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Gifts&Special Occasions

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen: Exciting Gifts for Men

The older men get, the harder it can become to buy for them. A lot of guys are seemingly content with what they have and happy to spend their evenings watching TV, down the pub with friends, reading or working on projects. Men don’t tend to get the same enjoyment

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Home&Garden

Walmart Toy Lab

Nov. 16, 2018 – Today, Walmart introduced The Walmart Toy Lab at www.WalmartToyLab.com, an all-new digital playground where Walmart’s littlest fans can play with 20 of the toys on the retailer’s Top Rated by Kids top toy list right from their computer or tablet. Like stepping into an interactive unboxing

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Home&Garden

The Walmart Story

Walmart as we know it today evolved from Sam Walton’s goals for great value and great customer service. “Mr. Sam,” as he was known, believed in leadership through service. This belief that true leadership depends on willing service was the principle on which Walmart was built, and drove the decisions

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Finance

Economic Impact of Rising Interest Rates

You know what’s interesting? Interest. Interest rates are often thought of as little more than numbers that affect our bank accounts but in fact they effect far more than that. When interest rates change, this can have far-flung consequences on the rest of the economy and ironically this can eventually come

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Finance

Taxes – What Can I Deduct?

Tax deductions are perhaps the only exciting thing about doing your taxes and despite popular belief, they are not only for the privileged – they’re just a bit elusive to the untrained eye. So what can you deduct from your taxes? Let’s take a look at ten of the most

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Finance

New Tech Investment Opportunities

Being a good investor is all about being able to read the markets and to some extent, predict the future. If you can tell what the ‘next big thing’ will be, then you can take any amount of money and turn it into a lot more money. And what’s even more exciting

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Gifts&Special Occasions

A Review of Craftsy.com

There are various avenues available to explore and learn in today’s world, whether through a college program, leisure reading, YouTube how-to videos, or online courses. Of the possibilities, each could come with its own advantages and disadvantages that bear looking into before you decide which direction is right for you

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Gifts&Special Occasions

Gifting Got Your Brain On Freeze Mode? We’ve Got The Remedy

By Danielle Holland Ingram We all know the feeling: that special event is nearing — creeping closer and closer to your presence and with every day that goes by the anxiety over picking a remotely decent gift for your special individual in mind builds and mounts until it’s pretty much

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