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Shopping Recommendations for Baby Boomers: Below are a few products we've found on Amazon.com that might be of interest to you during your empty nest or pre/post-retirement stage. If you click through to Amazon.com to shop for any of the products or a search of your own, you'll be helping support this site and our charity partner.

We'll be updating these suggestion regularly, and please feel free to make suggestions on items we should include in the next update...

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Stage of Life's mission is to provide you one destination to share your life stories, ask questions about your stage of life and get relevant merchant discounts, coupons and offers. And it's always FREE.

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Since we launched StageofLife.com, more than 4,967,500 words have been posted in our online community. Thousands of people have shared a personal story or entered one of our monthly blogging contests about life. Because we are a grassroots start-up, we encourage everyone to contact us anytime to share new ideas for the site, enter our blogging contests, request a classroom poster, or...help make the world a better place by submitting a story about their lives.

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StageofLife.com hosts national blogging and writing contests each month. Cash and/or gift card prizes are awarded along with Stage of Life SWAG and Featured Writer status. No matter what your life stage may be, we've got a monthly writing and blogging contest for you.

Deadline: Essays must be submitted online to StageofLife.com by May 31st, 2012.

Prize: A prize package from Stage of Life® and our writing contest sponsors will be sent to the winners of each monthly writing contest. Finalists are announced each month on or around the 15th. For details and to enter an essay contest, click on your life stage below:

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StageofLife.com is a grassroots, non-partisan, free blog with a mission to make the world a better place, one story at a time. By hosting blogs, information and resources for teens, college students, Millennials, Gen Y, Gen X, and Baby Boomers, its hope is that multi-generational story telling will weave a network of wisdom from which all can benefit, with an end goal to become the world's largest collection of stories. Blog features allow users to share and archive their life stories via their Stage of Life online journal and specialized content includes free lesson plans and writing prompts for Language Arts teachers, monthly writing contests, free ways to promote a blog, and My Life Rewards®, a free discount program for all Stage of Life users, readers and writers, dedicated to providing the best printable coupons and coupon codes tailored towards each stage of life. Share a Story. Save Money.

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