Category Archives: Life in General

Is It True Behind Every Successful Woman Is a Man – A Response

Gini Deitrich, of Arment Deitrich PR based in Chicago wrote a blog post entitled Is It True Behind Every Successful Woman Is a Man? today. As I was reading it, I was reminded of a book entitled I Can’t Believe She Did That!: Why Women Betray Other Women at Work by Nan Mooney. This book [...]

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Old Posts and Memories

There’s a trend right now of bloggers going through old posts on Twitter and re-posting them on their blogs. Hummingbird604 has posted a bunch and so has Michael Kwan. This prompted me to look through some of my old posts and I found a couple gems worth sharing.
I wrote this piece about five years ago, [...]

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Online Banking & Lessons Learned

Against my better judgement, I divulged that most of my accounts were at TD Canada Trust on twitter today. I didn’t say where my home branch was, but if you’re following me on Twitter, it’s pretty easy to figure out what city I live in, etc.
The reason I divulged this information was because of a [...]

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Getting Laid Off…

Getting laid off wasn’t the worst thing that could’ve happened to me.
Honestly, I didn’t want to be at my job anymore. It was boring, I really had no work to do, and it was showing through the cracks. You can only pretend to work for so long before someone picks up on it.  The worst [...]

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Setting Deadlines & This Blog

Wow. One whole week after I said I’d get this site up, I’m actually almost done. So much for setting deadlines for myself and meeting them! At least it’s up!
So what’s this site all about? Well, I’m a 27 year old who recently decided to go back to school. After a lot of introspection during [...]

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  • Hi! I'm Lesley, and I'm a 27 year old college student, studying Public Relations at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. This site is dedicated to frugal living and how not to go completely insane while living on a shoestring budget. If you feel so inclined, you may also donate to the "Send Lesley to School" fund! Trust me, you won't regret it!