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De-Stress Yourself Week #12: Clean Out Your Car

by Laura March 20, 2012 Destress Yourself
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Welcome to A Frugal Chick’s 2012 series “De-Stress Yourself.”  If you want to catch up on other ways to make your life easier click here.

I am HORRIBLE about this.  My car is constantly a wreck.  And it adds stress to my life.

I can’t ride with my windows all down because stuff blows [...]

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De-Stress Yourself Week #11: Clean Out The Junk Drawer

by Laura March 11, 2012 Destress Yourself
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Welcome to A Frugal Chick’s 2012 series “De-Stress Yourself.”  If you want to catch up take a moment and click here.

Every house has a junk drawer (or junk box or junk cabinet).  In my house growing up it was a drawer in the kitchen.

No one actually knew what was in it but [...]

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De-Stress Yourself Week #10: Clean Out Your Purse/Wallet

by Laura March 4, 2012 Destress Yourself
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Welcome to A Frugal Chick’s 2012 series “De-Stress Yourself.”  If you want to catch up take a moment and click here.

My wallet is ridiculous.

It’s full of receipts, expired gift cards and movie ticket stubs.

When I pay for things (because I pay with cash most of the time) change is always falling out [...]

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De-Stress Yourself Week #9: When You Eat, Just Eat

by Laura February 26, 2012 Destress Yourself
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Welcome to A Frugal Chick’s 2012 series “De-Stress Yourself.”  If you want to catch up take a moment and click here.

I am HORRIBLE about this week’s de-stressing tip.  It is one of my WORST habits.

Your assignment this week for de-stressing yourself is “When You Eat, Just Eat.” This week when you’re [...]

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De-Stress Yourself Week #8- Leave No Trace

by Laura February 19, 2012 Destress Yourself
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Welcome to A Frugal Chick’s 2012 series on “De-Stress Yourself.”  If you need to catch up on the past 7 weeks take a moment and click here!

As I was doing research online for this series I found this tip and thought it was really interesting.  I am not sure how much [...]

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De-Stress Yourself Week #7: Start Your Day Peacefully

by Laura February 12, 2012 Destress Yourself
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Welcome to the 2012 series “De-Stress Yourself.”  Each week I challenge you with one simple, inexpensive thing you can do to reduce your stress level.  If you have missed previous weeks take a moment to catch up!

This week’s challenge is one of the more difficult I have asked you to try.  [...]

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De-Stress Yourself Week #6: Play With A Pet

by Laura February 5, 2012 Destress Yourself
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Welcome to my 2012 series “De-Stress Yourself!”  If you missed any others be sure to check them out!

My de-stressing tip for week #6 is something I try to do every day.  Statistics show that around 62% of American households have pets- most of which you can probably play with in some [...]

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De-Stress Yourself Week #5: Use 5 Sentence E-mails

by Laura January 29, 2012 Destress Yourself
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Welcome to my 2012 series “De-Stress Yourself.”  If you have missed previous entries take a moment and catch up!

I absolutely love this de-stressing tip.  I think when we send e-mails we say too much.  We take too long.  And we give needless information.  (Sort of like this thought!)

This week your de-stressing challenge [...]

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De-Stress Yourself Week #4: Go To Bed Early

by Laura January 22, 2012 Destress Yourself
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Welcome to my 2012 Series “De-Stress Yourself“!  If you have missed the first three weeks check them out!

This week’s de-stressing assignment is pretty easy- go to bed early one night this week.

I don’t have to be a doctor to know that getting a full nights sleep improves my entire perspective the [...]

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Destress Yourself Week #3: Use Your Slow Cooker

by Laura January 15, 2012 Destress Yourself
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In 2012 A Frugal Chick is writing the series “Destress Yourself.”  Missed past posts?  Click here to catch up!

In my humble opinion the slow cooker is one of the most under-used appliances in households.  People don’t feel like cooking after they get home from work but they don’t utilize [...]

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