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Meet a Reader | Gretchen from Oregon

The Frugal Girl

How did you become interesting in saving money? so I just needed to spend money carefully and save if I could. My son with one of our baby goats I remember for many years looking at any recipe that asked for more than one kind of cheese and rejecting it right away. I have always wanted to save money for the future.

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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. In 2013, The Christmas Savings Club encouraged all of us to save monthly so that we could have a cash Christmas. How We Saved. How We Live.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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Our emergency fund has saved us countless times and it will save us once again with the truck. If you are self-employed, work for a company or in an industry that is unstable, or maybe you or someone in your family has medical issues, you might want to save 6-12 months of expenses. Put the money saved into your emergency fund.