Friday Link Pack

Christopher Wright / Esquire.com

Remember the story about four different men and their spending/saving habits? Here is the female version.  Very interesting and apples-to-apples on many items

Superfluous but noteworthy: this blogger writes a lot about beauty products and has named this product "THE ONE".

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A new podcast I've been listening to is called Embedded , which focuses on a variety of stories in the news and goes deep.  Each episode is about 35 minutes long and I've found the few I've listened to pretty captivating.  This NPR article details one of those stories: Five Days and Five Nights With Doctors Without Borders.  Yeah, you'll get over yourself pretty damn quick if you read this one.