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20 Tips for Frugal Living

For the Mommas

Shop around at garage sales, thrift stores and online classifieds for furniture and other household items. And as an added bonus, leftovers make a great lunch the next day. Stop using your credit cards. Credit cards make buying too easy and you usually end up buying too much when you use them.

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10 Reasons You’re Broke

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

You know you shouldn’t be using credit cards all the time. You go weekend e-baying, garage-saling or to the flea markets. You spend until the money runs out and then you put your purchases on your credit card. What you have leftover is how much you can spend. Or making your own coffee.

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Meet a Reader | Biker Liz

The Frugal Girl

Oreo Spiderweb cake There, I’d make everything from homemade bread to Steak Diane (seriously – my mom came to visit one time and bought $100 worth of beef tenderloin so I’d have leftovers – at the time, that was like 5lb of tenderloin! Hosting garage sales & reselling items.