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5 Meal Ideas For The Price Conscious Traveler

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Before I started traveling, I really didn’t think about how much my food costs. A $100 meal once a week was probably an average – and even regular meals at home were on the expensive side. Not to mention the fact that I’d cook huge amounts and invariably end up wasting some as well. There’s …

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5 Things About Love That Backpackers Know

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Being a backpacker can teach you many things, about yourself and about the world around you and the wonderful people in it. Here are 5 things about love that I’ve learned, as a backpacker… Love Learning #1: You know nothing Everybody thinks they know stuff, especially about intangible things like love, relationships, how to make …

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5 traits single people need to learn from backpackers

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Single people who aren’t happy being single typically tend to make the entire world around them sad, because they’re always moping around. Being a backpacker has opened my eyes to a few traits that single people need to pick up from backpackers, to make their lives go a bit easier: Single People Survival Guide Tip …

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5 Things You Should Know About The NYC Subway

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Here are 5 solid tips that will help you navigate the NYC subway – AND are very difficult to learn by yourself! Each of these has been earned through pain! NYC Subway Tip 01: Don’t bend the MetroCard! No-one will tell you this, but if you bend the metrocard, you will lose ALL your money …

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5 Things That CEOs Can Learn From Budget Travelers

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Budget travelers, like CEOs, have painful lives that they live in order to experience the rewards. That’s the hard truth – for all those beautiful cityscapes and sunsets, the IPOs and the successful buyouts, there’s a price to pay. Constant worry about your belongings and assets. Lots and lots of budget woes. Tons of tense …

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Top 5 Facebook Flaws

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Facebook is an amazing social tool, but the tragic flaw with it is that society is composed mainly of tools. This is why a number of extremely irritating trends have cropped up – trends which make you want to shut down your computer, go outside and take a deep breath. Now these trends have been documented …

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My Top 5 2013 April Fool’s Day Pranks

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Every year, tech companies try and outdo each other with April Fool’s Day pranks. From fake websites to fake products, here are 2013’s very best of the lot! Iron Man Suit from Firebox Yup, for just £250,000, you could own Tony Stark’s legendary “Mark XVLII” suit (incidentally, the latest suit we’ve seen is the Mark …

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5 Steps For A Loser In Love To Get A Girl / Guy

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Like Tyler Durden and WH Auden both said in vastly different ways, only when you have hit rock bottom can you truly rise again. The fact that you’re actually reading this article and contemplating following its advice means that your journey for rock bottom has been reached. Congratulations, you’re a loser in love. Now let’s …

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