<p>^My daughter, like her mother and grandmother before her, is a highly trained deal seeker. She loves thrift shops and is incredibly careful with money–both hers and mine–especially now that she has a part-time job. Last summer she went to France with her dad and stepfamily and she was the only one of the four kids who came back with almost all of the souvenir money that had been handed out at the start of the trip. She bought one small gift for her best friend in Paris and that was it.</p>