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6 Steps to Creating a Budget You Can Stick To

For the Mommas

Welcome to the first article in our new budgeting series. Over the next several weeks we will be posting articles that will help you budget and save your money. 6 Steps to Creating a Budget You Can Stick To. Setting a budget is important for your financial health. Setting a budget is important for your financial health.

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Are You Letting Your Luxuries Become Needs?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

TVs, cable, Internet service, certain clothes, particular foods, and even some social activities. Don’t justify luxuries by calling them needs, and recognize the luxuries so that you can cut them out of your budget when a financial setback calls for it. There are other luxuries that tend to become needs.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

Family Balance Sheet

Make it a game and be creative when looking for money within your budget and finding new ways to earn extra money. Groceries is the easiest budget category to overspend. Are you paying too much for home/auto insurance, cable, internet, cell? 10 – Rethink your gift spending and create a budget for the year.

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Save Money – Develop Important Home Owner Skills

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Crystal (owner of Budgeting in the Fun Stuff) wrote about how she annually contacts her cable/internet supplier to get reductions in her bill – step by step. Keeping costs under control can require persistent and recurrent contact and negotiation with the service providers. Dealing With Government Entities.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

Family Balance Sheet

Look for money within your budget and find creative ways to earn extra money. Are you paying too much for home/auto insurance, cable, internet? 8 – Rethink your gift spending and create a budget for the year. Become hyper-focused on funding this account. You will be so thankful later.