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Revenge Spending and Other Married Money Tricks

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Because of that, I urged my daughters-in-law to develop their own earning power. Spouses used to use secret overseas bank accounts to hide money from each other prior to a divorce split up. At the time, I was working part time for about 8 hours a weekend, earning minimum wage. Asset hiding.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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Being self-employed, we have a higher starter fund on hand and when we pay off our non-mortgage debt, we will save to at least 6 months expenses and maybe even more. Remember this account is specifically for your emergency fund. 15 – Find a part-time job. 2 – Decide where to put the money.

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

Our daughter is 24 and was adopted from Eastern Europe when she was one week short of a year old. He married the love of his life almost two years ago, so now we have a daughter-in-law, too. I still remember saving my change as a kid so I could “shop” for books at yard sales.) Our son is 29 and biological.

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How Krystal and Josh paid off $80k in 4 years!

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works in outbound sales, and I teach part-time. While we said no to eating out and going to the movies all the time, we. friends or family to save on housing costs, and we put a little bit from. each check into a savings account. By the time summer rolled around, we. daughter’s tenth birthday.

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