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Mrs. Accountability has an unusual new how-to post over at Out of Debt Again.

While spring has sprung here in the Southwest, 101 Centavos is irked when snow falls on northeastern Oklahoma…and on his garden. Undeterred, he describes how to make a gorgeous Italian salt rub out of your garden herbs.

First Gen American, who came roaring back from a hiatus with an awesome post contemplating the true meaning of happiness, describes what it was like to grow up poor. Really poor. Shopping in thrift stores has become a modish trip among a certain set of financially jittery middle-class Americans; having to buy everything that way is quite a different thing from hunting the occasional Chico’s find at the “upscale thrift shop” whose proprietors screen everything and won’t accept anything that doesn’t have a designer label.

Mr. and Mrs. PoP also hold forth on the happiness issue, a post that elicits a long series of readers’ reports on the small things that bring joy to our lives.

Money Beagle has a great post on finding a roofing company, which goes into interesting detail on roofing materials and what one should be looking out for.

Uh oh. It’s 2:30 in the morning and I just remembered I haven’t read all those stoont papers that came in from the magazine-writing set. So…to work!