Thrifty Sister: Saving Ways for Black Folks

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African-Americans are still struggling with the same economic issues that have plagued us for decades. Too many of us are hoping, dreaming, playing lotto and spinning wheels. Thrifty Sister: Saving Ways for Black Folks encompasses the many different ways we can save.

Step back from the chaotic world and rediscover the values that make your life worth living. Visualize yourself at peace, balanced and managing your life with dignity. Prioritize your wants and needs and make appropriate choices tailored to your individual lifestyle. With a little planning and self-examination, you can attain a deeper understanding of yourself and confidently make appropriate choices tailored to your goals.

Thrifty Sister will take you step-by-step and show you how to begin your own personal journey to prosperity through frugality. Each chapter will empower and enlighten you to tap into your own creativity, recognize your gifts and the true treasures of life. Over 300 thrifty tips and strategies are served throughout the seven chapters.

Gain insight on:

Making small, easy changes that produce big results
Creating an action plan for major, positive change
How to enrich your life without money
How our history has shaped our values and habits
Eliminating negative traits that are sabotaging your goals
Prioritizing spending and reap the rewards
Improving your lifestyle on the money you currently earn
Planning for your future
How to splurge using thrifty methods

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A "Tell it like it is" Book on being Thrifty.......2002-08-06

Sometimes, we need someone to sit us down and talk to us one on one about things, and in regards to living a thrifty lifestyle, author Pat Worthy Benson does just that in her book, Thrifty Sister: Saving Ways for Black Folks.

This is an excellent guide for those who are tired of being preached to about what they should or shouldn't do with their lives when it comes to spending money and setting priorities. Benson, who has spent over 30 years investigating, testing and living the thrifty lifestyle, is like a friend who sits down with you, tells you how being thrifty has helped her organize her life and how it can do the same for you.

There's info galore in this book on balancing your budget and managing your life, creating action plans for major, positive change, eliminating negative traits that are sabotaging your goals, improving your lifestyle on the money you currently earn, planning your future, and even down to the basics such as minimizing and prioritizing your grocery list, tips to keep you beautiful without paying a pretty penny, making a meal stretch, and so much more.

I would definitely recommend this book to everyone who feels the money crunch on a monthly basis and would want to get his or her finances and life in check.

Shon Bacon

A Martha Stewart for the African American Community.......2002-04-16

...And actually that's "pigeon holding" or catergorizing this book and it deserves so much more. I myself am a 35 year old single male, I've had this book for a while and continue to utilize Ms. Benson's valuable tips. I make a good financial living... But I still have to maintain a budget... Espeacially living in New York. I put one of her tips to the test, just to see if I could do it... and she's right... I recently was able to purchase a DVD/CD player... I say that, because it was from the savings from three weeks of my awareness to my grocerie bills, and a lot of my purchase's are from dipping in another bill payments, and then it's "rob Peter to pay Paul" senerio to play catch up ... I've learn to buy in bulk and "brown bag" it to work, instead of eating out every day- trying to be Cool. Now it's just on Friday's, and the savings enable that to be a great treat, and I've even treated myself to dinner out, on a few occasions... Overall, it's helped me to reevaluate my spending in all areas. What's even funnier is... ... I've also like some of the old fashion "Natural Beauty" remedies. This book has it's special drawer, in my apartment... So It'll always be at a hands reach. Thank You... Looking for your next installment.

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The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the United States Federal Government.

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 17, Commodity and Securities Exchanges, Pt. 1-199, Revised as of April 1, 2006

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Code of Federal Regulations, Title 17, Commodity and Securities Exchanges, Pt. 200-239, Revised as of April 1, 2005

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Code of Federal Regulations, Title 17, Commodity and Securities Exchanges, Pt. 240-End, Revised as of April 1, 2006

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Code Of Federal Regulations, Title 17: Commodity & Securities

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John C. Nicolay, who had known Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, served as chief White House secretary from 1861 to 1865. Trained as a journalist, Nicolay had hoped to write a campaign biography of Lincoln in 1860, a desire that was thwarted when an obscure young writer named William Dean Howells got the job. Years later, however, Nicolay fulfilled his ambition; with John Hay, he spent the years from 1872 to 1890 writing a monumental ten-volume biography of Lincoln.

In preparation for this task, Nicolay interviewed men who had known Lincoln both during his years in Springfield and later when he became the president of the United States. "When it came time to write their massive biography, however," Burlingame notes, "he and Hay made sparing use of the interviews" because they had become "skeptical about human memory." Nicolay and Hay also feared that Robert Todd Lincoln might censor material that reflected "poorly on Lincoln or his wife."

Nicolay had interviewed such Springfield friends as Lincoln’s first two law partners, John Todd Stuart and Stephen T. Logan. At the Illinois capital in June and July 1875, he talked to a number of others including Orville H. Browning, U.S. senator and Lincoln’s close friend and adviser for over thirty-five years, and Ozias M. Hatch, Lincoln’s political ally and Springfield neighbor. Four years later he returned briefly and spoke with John W. Bunn, a young political "insider" from Springfield at the time Lincoln was elected president, and once again with Hatch.

Browning shed new light on Lincoln’s courtship and marriage, telling Nicolay that Lincoln often told him "that he was constantly under great apprehension lest his wife should do something which would bring him into disgrace" while in the White House. During their research, Nicolay and Hay also learned of Lincoln’s despondency and erratic behavior following his rejection by Matilda Edwards, and they were subsequently criticized by friends for suppressing the information. Burlingame argues that this open discussion of Lincoln’s depression of January 1841 is "perhaps the most startling new information in the Springfield interviews."

Briefer and more narrowly focused than the Springfield interviews, the Washington interviews deal with the formation of Lincoln’s cabinet, his relations with Congress, his behavior during the war, his humor, and his grief. In a reminiscence by Robert Todd Lincoln, for example, we learn of Lincoln’s despair at General Lee's escape after the Battle of Gettysburg: "I went into my father’s office ... and found him in [much] distress, his head leaning upon the desk in front of him, and when he raised his head there were evidences of tears upon his face. Upon my asking the cause of his distress he told me that he had just received the information that Gen. Lee had succeeded in escaping across the Potomac river. . ."

To supplement these interviews, Burlingame has included Nicolay’s unpublished essays on Lincoln during the 1860 campaign and on Lincoln’s journey from Springfield to Washington in 1861, essay’s based on firsthand testimony.

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Firsthand memories of Lincoln.......2007-08-23

An invaluable collection of recollections by persons who knew Lincoln before and during the presidency. The stories were recorded in interviews conducted by John Nicolay, one of Lincoln's White House secretaries. This book will probably be enjoyed more by specialists than by general readers. Five-star rating is based on book's usefulness to researchers.

An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay's Interviews and Essays.: An article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly

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An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay's Interviews and Essays.: An article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly
Charles B. Strozier
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This digital document is an article from Presidential Studies Quarterly, published by Center for the Study of the Presidency on June 22, 1997. The length of the article is 883 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay's Interviews and Essays.
Author: Charles B. Strozier
Publication: Presidential Studies Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1997
Publisher: Center for the Study of the Presidency
Volume: v27 Issue: n3 Page: p601(3)

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This book contains biographical sketches of 83 people, with particular attention paid to moments that changed their lives. In different ways, they all overcame an obstacle or adapted to an outside force or turned discouragement into hope. Included are actors (Humphrey Bogart, Clint Eastwood, Katharine Hepburn), comics (Woody Allen, Bob Hope), entrepreneurs (Bill Gates), presidents (Harry Truman, Jimmy Carter), and seemingly ordinary people whose lives have inspired countless others (Grandma Moses, Rosa Parks, Mother Teresa). News anchor Oprah Winfrey had been described as too emotional, too nice, too unprofessional, and too unattractive to succeed at her Baltimore television station. After her perceptive station manager transformed her from news anchor to talk show host, Oprah was in her element and on her way. Young Louis Armstrong didn't let a stay in reform school keep him down. He determined he would learn to play the cornet. This led "Satchmo" to world fame as an always affable trumpet virtuoso loved by millions. Some of the 83 knew exactly what they wanted and where they were going; others had no idea. But they all experienced major turning points that took them to greater things.

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Nonprofit Management & Leadership, No. 1, Fall 2001 (J-B NML Single Issue Nonprofit Management & Leadership)
Roger A. Lohmann
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Principles of Home Inspection: Exteriors (Principles of Home Inspection)
Carson Dunlop
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This text is organized into major sections on exterior cladding, exterior structures, and surface water control and landscaping. Wall surfaces are covered in a material-by-material organization, including thorough treatment of synthetic stucco (EIFS), a challenging issue for home inspectors.

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William Byrd: A Short Account of His Life and Work
Edmund Horace Fellowes
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William Byrd - A Short Account of His Life and Work
Edmund H. Fellowes
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Army scout, buffalo hunter, Indian fighter, and impresario of the world-renowned "Wild West Show," William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody lived the real American West and also helped create the "West of the imagination." Born in 1846, he took part in the great westward migration, hunted the buffalo, and made friends among the Plains Indians, who gave him the name Pahaska (long hair). But as the frontier closed and his role in "winning the West" passed into legend, Buffalo Bill found himself becoming the symbol of the destruction of the buffalo and the American Indian. Deeply dismayed, he spent the rest of his life working to save the remaining buffalo and to preserve Plains Indian culture through his Wild West shows.

This biography of William Cody focuses on his lifelong relationship with Plains Indians, a vital part of his life story that, surprisingly, has been seldom told. Bobby Bridger draws on many historical accounts and Cody's own memoirs to show how deeply intertwined Cody's life was with the Plains Indians. In particular, he demonstrates that the Lakota and Cheyenne were active cocreators of the Wild West shows, which helped them preserve the spiritual essence of their culture in the reservation era while also imparting something of it to white society in America and Europe. This dual story of Buffalo Bill and the Plains Indians clearly reveals how one West was lost, and another born, within the lifetime of one remarkable man.

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Bobby Bridger, American Historian, author, entertainer.......2002-12-14

Bridger, decendent of the reknown Mountain man, Jim Bridger, has written an outstanding book on two of history's most colorful and enduring icons of the American west and the dynamic process that each dealt with during the late 19th century America. Bridger is one the best entertainers in American today and this book only shows a small example of his profound abilities. Years of research and documentation of historical events pays tribute to truth, justice, and injustices, of the American West. This book should be a standard fare for all collegiate history classes and for the general public at large. History is always multi-sided and Bridger illustrates that to perfection. This is a must read. It will impress both scholars and the general public. BRAVO MR. BRIDGER! We look forward to the next! Sing on Great Spirit!

The history behind the music.......2002-12-05

For years, Bobby Bridger has been entertaining audiences musically with his Ballad of the West. One of the hour sets, Pahaska, tells the story of Buffalo Bill in what Bridger describes as Homeric ballads. Now, Bridger puts aside the guitar and period garb to show his serious academic side. "Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull: Inventing the Wild West" is the history behind his music. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the old west and is an intriguing look into how the popular vision of it was created.

The history behind the art.......2002-11-30

For years, Bobby Bridger has been presenting the story of Buffalo Bill in a musical act called Pahaska, a one-hour series of enthralling songs that tell the story of Bill Cody. Now, Bridger puts down the guitar and period garb from his act to show the history behind his art. In this historical tome, Bridger shows the serious academic side of his art. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the history of the West. Bridger's look at how the modern romantic vision of the American West was created is intriguing and as captivating as his music.

The history behind the art.......2002-11-29

For years, Bobby Bridger has been presenting the story of Buffalo Bill in a one-hour musical act that tells the story of Bill Cody in a series of enthralling songs. Now, with this historical tome, Bridger has completed the circle. This is the history behind Bobby Bridger's art. Bridger puts down the guitar and period garb used in his musical drama to show readers the serious academic side of his personality. If you want some intriguing inquiry and suggestion about how the modern vision of the romantic west was created, this book is a must read.

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