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Reduce Your Spending in 3 Budget Categories | 31 Days to Organize Your Finances

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Groceries. I talk a lot about grocery spending on this blog. My absolute #1 way for saving money at the grocery store is to PLAN OUR MEALS. If you make this one simple change, you will reduce your grocery spending. You will not only save yourself money, but also time.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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2 – Reduce your grocery spending without sacrificing quality. Can you answer this question, how much do you spend on groceries each month? If you do not know the answer, then there is a good chance you are over spending. The easiest way to reduce your grocery spending is to plan your meals.

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Take Control of Your Money in 2015

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This is the year that we will control our money and our debt and fear will not control us. 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. Maintaining a grocery budget is a weekly process for me.

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How to Save Money on Groceries

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These are strategies I use weekly to help keep my grocery bill in line with our budget. My budget has gone up quite a bit from when I first started blogging. We use Cetaphil and it is pricey, so I took advantage of that money-saving tip. I average about $5 in coupons on a typical trip to the grocery store.

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10 Smart Ways to Become Debt Free

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Acadia’s advice is to be creative and think about your talents and gifts and how you could use them to make extra money. She also started a blog. They Managed their Grocery Spending. I have always stressed that groceries is one of the easiest budget categories to reduce.

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