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She stopped accommodating everyone else and started setting boundaries for herself. She closed insurance contracts, accepted only cash, raised her rates $10, shortened her one-hour sessions to fifty minutes, said no to people who couldn’t pay, and blocked out time for herself. “I had to start turning people down. That was really hard. I felt like a

Fiona is scrolling through her Instagram. Three point five million followers now. She has promised her Instagram adviser, Luke, that she will post a story today. He is very strict with her, but, seeing as he can get her twenty-five thousand pounds a time to post about a free holiday to the Maldives, she lets him be. But it’s all very regimented and

Aldi ’s core strategy is simple: offer an acceptable level of quality at very competitive prices.

While there are notable differences in the complexity, nuance, allusion, artistic innovation and experimentation found in mass, mid, and high culture, the argument that one is intrinsically more valuable than the others is, of course, fundamentally elitist. It’s no accident that this sort of cultural work—by Macdonald and others—is often the pet pr

A few years before Cary began practicing minimalism, she and her soon-to-be husband, Cam, moved into an apartment together. They negotiated and bargained and argued about whose duplicate items would stay and whose would have to go. Rather than compromise, they did what any other duo of stubborn twenty-five-year-olds would do: they stuffed two apart