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		<title>Finally, Officially French</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	. . . And  yet I still haven&#8217;t acquired French humor. 
	When the letter arrived stipulating that we needed to come to the court house regarding my request for French nationality, DH and I both raised a sarcastic eyebrow. &#8220;What now?&#8221; we thought.  I imagined that it would be a request for some new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mea Culpa!! The flakiest moment of my life.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I want to offer my sincerest apologies for not blogging/writing or updating for . . . um&#8211;months. Thanks to Pickler &#8211;who informed people that the author was not dead.  I&#8217;m embarrassed.  Really. All is well.  We did not meat some horrible demise.  Life has simply been challenging&#8211;so challenging that I&#8217;ve not even always been good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People today: ruder than ever?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Sometimes you hear something so much that it simply starts to seem true: something like cultural brainwashing.  I often wonder if that&#8217;s true for the premise that people today have somehow taken lack of civility to a new extreme.
	It&#8217;s easy to see how such brainwashing could occur.  I walk around the city on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology and entertainment making us unhappy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	A friend recently recounted over dinner in our home that he could remember sitting around with family late into the evening, soaking up long, rambling conversations with a clay roofing tile on his leg and a hammer in his hand&#8211;shelling walnuts.  For him, this was a happy memory.  And then he pointed out,
	Try taking away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where would you pinch pennies if you had to?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	 What if your income suddenly shrank a few sizes? Do you have any clearly identified luxuries that would be first on your list of items to go?  Or would you have to scour an already streamlined budget to get by?
	I&#8217;ve been asking myself these questions lately as the French media and the French population [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are your favorite simple or frugal sports?</title>
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	Everyone needs a good dose of exercise and sunshine, and seeking to lead a simple life, save money or consume less shouldn&#8217;t mean cutting back on basic needs.  In fact, I&#8217;d argue that when a sport or athletic pastime is a passion, it just might qualify as a frugal luxury.
	As always, I&#8217;m curious to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you be more frugal in town or in the country?</title>
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If you&#8217;ve read my recent guest post at Well-Heeled Blog, then you know that DH and I have decided to settle in a much more rural area here in France.  Our decision to skip out of the biggest population centers pivoted largely on the fact that the cost of housing there seemed to negate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passing the French Driving Test&#8211;and weekly post picks.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Regular readers may have noticed that my blogging has been a bit erratic lately.  This is in large part due to the fact that I got a sudden opportunity to take the driving test last week. I took several refresher courses with the local auto ecole to make sure that I was not to rusty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you need a financial makeover?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	When do you know it&#8217;s time for a change financially?  It&#8217;s not like you suddenly look in the mirror and see that your haircut has grown out or put on a pair of pants and find that they now struggle to contain your new (ahem) curves.  As I was reading Health and Dollars: A challenge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simplelifeinfrance.com/2010/05/do-you-need-a-financial-makeover/</link>
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		<title>Learn the local language, travel on the cheap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Wanderlust anyone?  You may be planning a trip abroad or just fantasizing about one, but don’t forget to include a little language learning in your preparations–if you want to save money, that is.
	How speaking the language will save you . . . click here to view my full guest post at Young and Thrifty. 
	And [...]]]></description>
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