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I Quit My Job, Moved To A New Country, And Am Living Off Savings. Here’s How.

In this edition of Scrimp City, we meet one young woman who built up her savings and moved to Amsterdam to pursue a better career. Here’s how she kept to a strict budget while job hunting.

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What Do Jade Rollers Actually Do For Your Skin?

Is the “it” beauty product just another passing trend? Or worth the investment? We asked two experts.

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Crush Your Mansplainer Nemesis At Work With One Of These Excellent Comebacks

If you’ve kept up with Insecure this season, you’ve likely seen workplace misogyny on full display—particularly with Molly’s character. 

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WTF Is The Keirsey Temperament Sorter? And How Can I Use It To Get Ahead At Work?

The Keirsey Temperament Sorter, asks one initial question—what’s your “Temperament?”—and a 10 to 15 minute questionnaire will sort you into one of four Temperament types: Artisan, Guardian, Idealist, and Rational. 

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How Much Should You *Really* Spend On Rent? (And Other Budget Questions)

Here’s the thing to keep in mind: Budgeting is highly personal. It requires honesty and commitment, but it’s entirely up to you how you prioritize your spending while planning for what’s ahead.

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Ask Sophia: How To Stop Buying ‘Stuff’ And Finally Save Some Money

I’ve been struggling with this one since the day I was born and still ask these questions daily.

How Eating Sustainably Is A Form Of Activism

Focused on sourcing ingredients from local farmers and transforming them into accessible meals created on-site from scratch, Lanzet and Barnett are tireless advocates for the importance of disrupting the industrial food complex.

This Brand Wants To Pay You $120K To Vacation In Mexico For A Year

While on the ground, the pro-vacationist will be required to endure daunting tasks like trying out new luxury spa treatments, checking every resort pool to make sure the temperature is just right, plus myriad other duties that are dangerously close to putting us over our FOMO limit.  

How To Break Up With Your Phone And *Actually* Do A Digital Detox

Our obsessive use of smartphones has “blurred the lines of at-work and off-work."

Playlist: Put These Rad Girl Groups Of The ’60s On High Rotation RN

Like riot grrl, or grew up on the female-fronted alternative bands of the ’90s? Then you’ll love this historical tour of the ’60s best, and weirdest all-girl vocal groups and garage-y rock bands. Take The Shaggs—once described in Rolling Stone as “sounding like lobotomized Trapp Family singers.” The sloppy, nonsensical arrangements and “singing” the teen girl band developed, grew a cult following in a time before the phrased “DIY” or “punk” had...