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By Fabulous & Frugal | At Home – 11 hours ago
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Hot Gifts Under $100
'Tis the season to help graduates start their new lives…in style! We've picked a few of our Fab & Fru favorites - under $100 - perfect for both the high school and college grad…
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When you think Jonathan Adler you think FABULOUS - and not at all frugal, right? Well, check out his tool box gift set - for under $25! It's perfect for the grad who will finally be living alone. Even if you don't know the first thing about home repairs, at least you can look chic doing it!
Hoop-La!
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Jewelry designer Adina Reyter is one of our favorites - our latest obsession is her "Hoop Bar" - a totally fabulous array of different sizes and shapes (hello, Hexagon!) of hoop earrings - in both gold plated and silver. Choose more funky for the grad going off to college, and more understated for that college grad going on real world interviews. Either way, she offers a huge selection of chic - all for under a hundred bucks!
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Read More »By Fabulous & Frugal | Fashion – Wed, May 9, 2012 5:30 PM EDT 
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The Stealth Chic Of A Favorite Brand
Ok, let's face it. You probably never thought Land's End was cool, but that's about to change. That's right: we're talking about the mail order retailer you probably last shopped at for a pea-coat in middle school. And, shocking but true: Land's End is actually full of fantastic Fab & Fru Fashion Finds!
No, Really...
Just hear me out on this one. A lot of brands put their hipness right out there for you to see. Not Land's End - they go to great lengths to put their models in the worst colors and combinations. They make you work to find the chic. But if you dig deeper, we swear there is a treasure trove of affordable fashion just waiting to be found...even for YOU, the
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Look Beyond The Featured Color
Land's End will often feature a piece of clothing in a color you might not
Read More »By Fabulous & Frugal | Work + Money – Mon, May 7, 2012 5:11 PM EDT
by Stephanie Berenbaum - May 7th, 2012
Want To Get Ahead At Work?
Wishing you could network with other professional women? Looking for female mentors? Craving advice on how to get ahead at work? Then we've got great news for you: Citi and LinkedIn just launched
CONNECT: Professional Women's Network! We've already been using this new online resource and can't wait for our readers to check it out...
Ok, So What Is CONNECT?
Connect is a new LinkedIn Group, superpowered by our friends at Citi &
Women & Co. It is a fantastic forum dedicated to
women helping each other become savvier professional networkers and advancing in their careers. Very Fabulous - and since it is FREE - very Frugal! It's sort of like going out to one of those cocktail networking events after work - except this one goes on 24/7 and you can participate from the comfort of your own home...
Work Smarter
Every woman we know is multi-tasking to her limits (and beyond). Which is why we like the advice from Nicole
Read More » By Fabulous & Frugal | At Home – Thu, May 3, 2012 4:37 PM EDT
by Brandi Savitt - May 3rd, 2012
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Gross the Most at Your Next Garage Sale
If you've ever strolled through Brooklyn between April and October, you know that you can't walk down the streets on the weekends without stumbling upon multiple stoop sales (our urban version of a garage sale). And this Sunday, my co-op is hosting a stoop sale in the front yard of our brownstone. Our goal? To sell as much unwanted clutter from our apartments as possible, and put our collective earnings towards a bunch of small repairs we need to make in the building. At the end of the day, what ever we don't sell we'll donate to Goodwill. Not a bad idea, right? In fact, I'm excited to mingle with the passerbys, bargain with hardcore rummagers, and rake in some cash. Our expectations are high, so I talked to the one expert who rocks it every time - our favorite garage sale guru, Sofia Black. Check out her tips on how to turn your front yard into an inviting and lucrative boutique for the day.
--Remember- Read More » By Fabulous & Frugal | Fashion – Wed, May 2, 2012 6:00 PM EDT 
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Fab & Fru-nique Mother's Day Presents
Don't have a lot of money to spend on mom? So what! That's no excuse for giving a boring Mother's Day Gift. If you think having "only" $20 bucks to spend means a another Target gift card tucked in with your Hallmark Card - THINK AGAIN. In honor of May being
Small Business Month, here are our favorite Fab & Fru gift ideas - all under $50 and all from small - but FAB - businesses!
For The Gourmet Mom: Modern Bite
You've never seen
cookies like these before! For $30 you can give mom the most fabulous, modern designed "tile" cookies (see main photo) - and they taste as good as they look! These tres chic sweets not only come individually wrapped - they are also packaged in a
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Modern Bite is hooked ...including us!
For The Artsy Mom: Xenia Taler Picture Frames and Tiles
Speaking of tiles...We've written about our love for
Xenia Taler handmade tiles before - and just in time for Mother's Day they
Read More »By Fabulous & Frugal | Love + Sex – Tue, May 1, 2012 4:44 PM EDT From Here To Eternity?
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Our friend Marci just got engaged to her adorable fella, Joe. Marci certainly isn't the bridezilla type, but like most of us, she had pretty specific ideas of what kind of engagement ring she wanted. Rather than the classic solitaire diamond ring, she expressed to Joe how all she ever wanted was a diamond "eternity band" (gems all the way around) when they got engaged.
Fast forward to the big reveal. After an idyllic picnic and stroll through the botanical gardens, Joe got down on one knee and proposed. As he opened the lid of the ring box, the light glistened off what looked to be the eternity band of Marci's dreams. That is, until he slipped the sparkler on her finger, and she realized the diamonds only went half way around - a sort of a semi eternity band…
Marci was so disappointed, but didn't want to ruin the moment. She told Joe how much she loved the ring, and the two toasted their future together with a glass of bubbly. But now, a week
Read More »By Fabulous & Frugal | Parenting – Fri, Apr 27, 2012 3:04 PM EDT
by - Brandi Savitt - April 26, 2012
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Teaching Self Esteem, not Entitlement
Last week, I had the misfortune of dealing with a colleague who asked for a promotion for a job she was simply too inexperienced to handle. The ultimate problem was her demanding nature, and that her entitled tone (backed by no experience or strategy) offended many people involved in the account. The icing on the cake?
She was totally oblivious to the drama she had caused to the project and her team, and therefore could not bring herself to understand the consequences or take responsibility for her actions... Cut to the chase: her ego and sense of entitlement were so extreme, she ultimately was let go! It got me thinking - how can you stop this sort of behavior from forming before it costs you your job?!
Don't Blame Generation Y
While 20-somethings battle with the repercussions of being given the label "The Entitled Generation", it is up to all of us to consider that maybe it isn't the fault of the
Read More » By Fabulous & Frugal | At Home – Wed, Apr 25, 2012 6:01 PM EDT
by Stephanie Berenbaum - April 25, 2012
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Go Green & Save Money with LunchSkins
My sons' school has been doing a great job encouraging parents to pack "no waste" lunches for the kids. No waste meaning: no paper napkins, no disposable utensils and absolutely no plastic sandwich bags! And while I am all for the Green movement - it has taken a lot of trial and error to find eco-friendly products that I would actually recommend to friends and Fab & Fru readers. After experimenting - a lot - I found a baggie alternative I love:
LunchSkins! And what's even more Fab & Fru? They are now available at
TARGET! Now you really have no excuse.
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In addition to protecting the environment, LunchSkins also protect your wallet. For example, Ziploc sandwich bags run about $4.50 for 100, and Ziploc's snack bags run about $3.90. Assuming you are constantly replenishing your supply like most moms I know, you're probably dropping at least $100 a year on plastic bags. Instead, the
Read More » By Fabulous & Frugal | Work + Money – Tue, Apr 24, 2012 5:44 PM EDT 
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Business or Pleasure?
Denise works for a small media company in New York that does quite a lot of business in Europe. Recently, she went to London to meet with a potential consulting partner that her company was looking to contract. Denise's expense budget was limited, and policy dictated that any "non-essential meals" would not be covered by her company. Cut to the last night of her trip... Denise was invited to join Polly - the project manager of the consulting company - for a lavish dinner. Assuming the consulting firm would pick up the tab, Denise agreed to go out for what was sure to be a fun but expensive night on the town. However, when the bill arrived Polly looked at Denise and said, "You're okay if we each pay our share, right? This was more of a friendly invitation and the company will never go for me expensing it..." Taken back by the 150 pound bill each, Denise threw down her card and tried not to freak out.
So, was this dinner business or pleasure? Should Denise ask
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by Lisa Moore, April 23, 2012
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The Magic of Makeup
Thinking about plastic surgery? You're not alone. 13.8 million plastic surgeries were performed in 2011. $12.4 billion dollars went into those surgeries - that's $1.80 for each person on Earth! As far as some of the most popular procedures go, 5.7 million Botox treatments were performed last year - at between $120 and $400 per treatment. Nose jobs cost between $3,000 and $15,000, collagen injections run anywhere from $300 up to $5,000, and the 119,000 facelifts performed in 2011 set people back between $6,000 and $15,000 each!
Before dropping big bucks, check out these tops tips for your eyes, lips and nose to help keep you looking young - while keeping your money in the bank! EYES: Lavish Lashes
black-woman-makeup_picnik As we age, our eyelashes often thin out. Investing just a few bucks in false lash PIECES will give you an eye lift for less! Forget what you think of the thick falsies of the past, today's lashes are subtle fillers that give a
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