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Topic: 5 Frugal Living Tips To Saving Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

By cutting down on eating out or ordering in food and instead buy the ingredients to make the same meal, whilst it is more effort to cook, this will save you huge sums of money in the long run. Buy Second-hand. That’s where buying second-hand can help reduce the amount you pay. Sell What You Don’t Need.

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5 Frugal Living Tips To Saving Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

By cutting down on eating out or ordering in food and instead buy the ingredients to make the same meal, whilst it is more effort to cook, this will save you huge sums of money in the long run. Buy Second-hand. That’s where buying second-hand can help reduce the amount you pay. Sell What You Don’t Need.

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Teaching Stewardship Through Frugal Living

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The following are six steps that you use to help teach others through a demonstration of frugal living: Help Others In Need : When all of your needs are met, it’s easy to forget about others. However, do not go overboard, and buy all the items on the shelf. Think about other people who need the items as well.

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20 Tips for Frugal Living

For the Mommas

20 Tips for Frugal Living. Living frugally allows you to not only spend less than what you earn, but also allows you to earn less. You have more options with a frugal lifestyle. It’s not as hard as you may think to still enjoy a great life while living more frugally. Stop impulse buying.

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Does delayed gratification = more appreciation?

The Frugal Girl

I’m thinking about this question specifically in terms of buying things. And if I had enough money to buy whatever I want, whenever I want it, I think that would reduce my level of appreciation for those purchases. For example, I saved up for years and years to be able to buy my minivan without a car loan.

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Meet a Reader | Megan from California

The Frugal Girl

What’s your best frugal win? This is largely a case of being in the right place at the right time, but my husband and I really lucked out when we were ready to buy a house. That would have been just fine, except I also decided I wanted to buy a fancy car and go out to nice meals a bunch with my boyfriend at the time.

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2014 Halloween Candy Buy Back Program

Saving With Shellie

If you don’t want your kids eating all their Halloween candy, check out the Halloween Candy Buy Back Program. Participating dentists “buy” back kids’ Halloween candy at a scheduled event. The dentists “buy” the candy with cash, coupons, toothbrushes, and other creative exchanges.