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Find out How Drew & Farrah Paid off $200k of debt, including their HOME

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What are your hobbies? It’s been busy with the babies and so much work/income that hobbies lately have been sleeping (if we can) and traveling. We knew that we would make more money but we wanted to be able to buy a house with a conventional mortgage and we can’t come up with the down payment so we need to ratchet down.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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Dave Ramsey suggests in his book, The Total Money Makeover , that you create a starter emergency fund of $1000. Yard sales take some work, but you can declutter your house and make some cash in the same weekend. Consider what your hobbies and interests are and look for work in those fields. I found this post very helpful.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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Dave Ramsey suggests in his book, The Total Money Makeover (affiliate link) , that you create a starter emergency fund of $1000. If you have some bigger items, you will likely make more money selling them on Craigslist or your local Facebook sale page than at a yard sale. 1 – Determine how much you need.