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7 Ways Pinterest is the Best Wedding Planning Tool on the Internet!

Wedding planning is much harder than I thought.  MUCH.  Let me clarify:  I never expected it to be easy.  But MAN is there a lot to do!  I was never someone who spent much time thinking about my wedding, and by extension, wedding planning.  I hadn't dreamt of my dress, picked out a location, or imagined the reception.  Until I joined Pinterest, that is.  After a few months resisting the urge to create a wedding board and letting all of the beautiful pictures float away, un-pinned, into the abyss, never to be retrieved... I gave in.  How could I not?  For the first time in my life I was thinking about what my possible-eventual-hypothetical wedding might be like, and it was REALLY fun.  But I didn't have a fiancĂ©, or even a serious boyfriend, so I tried to keep the crazy pinning lust to a minimum.  Because who wants to date a girl with 3,000 pins on her wedding board?

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Should You Get Rid Of All Your Leather Now That You're Vegan?

"What should a vegan do with all of their leather, wool, silk, and down products?"

If you asked 100 vegans you would hear 100 different opinions, but I believe there is no right or wrong answer to this question.  This is not, unfortunately, a black and white issue.  Ridding your life of animal products for good can be a long process or even impossible in today's world.  The way they are used in just about everything, whether or not they need to be, makes transitioning to a fully vegan lifestyle a struggle.  Do you drive a car or take the bus?  Do you own a computer? Do you watch movies on film?  You're using animal products.  In today's world, the prevalence of objects containing animal products is staggering.  So what should you do?

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