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Take Control of Your Money in 2015

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I’ll continue to offer additional money saving tips, ideas, strategies and recipes like I always have, but I have some new themes that I will be starting next week. We will be challenging ourselves to resist buying retail and instead choose thrift by borrowing, buying second hand, or making do with what we already have.

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Bee Stung Butts, Freeze Dried Diapers and Other Hilarious Happenings of Poverty

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Plus, it can be really inconvenient to “make do or do without!” Man, you really have to plan ahead and be on top of things to make sure you can cover the baby’s rear with clean diaps in that situation! Do you have a funny story about making do? Money Tips' Poverty is inconvenient.

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Our 2018 Financial Goals

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I want to challenge myself to rethink our purchases by taking advantage of more cost effective solutions, like borrowing, buying second hand, or just making do with what we already have. We loosely based it on Dave Ramsey’s 7 Baby Step process, but modified it to address our needs. Choose Thrift First. Plan our Spending.