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Meet a Reader | Gretchen from Oregon

The Frugal Girl

As well as other “from scratch” things like my current main hobby of teaching myself how to spin yarn from our sheeps’ wool. I ‘ve been reading The Frugal Girl for 4+ years now, definitely pre-pandemic but I’m not sure how much before. I do a lot of our cooking from scratch which takes a lot of my time!

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Create your debt freedom plan

Family Balance Sheet

Stressed out, we ventured into Dave Ramsey’s online Financial Peace University home course for help. Prior to FPU, we thought we were doing well financially and never considered that we had too much debt. We thought we were doing really well. Well, you know how that ends…someday, we’ll travel extensively. .

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Reducing Household Odors with Filtrete

Nicoles Nickels

Filtrete has a cool Healthy Home Remodel Contest going on through June 30, 2013 that you should definitely enter. The grand prize is $30,000 worth of home inspections, repairs, and renovations by a Holmes Group (Mike Holmes, a renowned HBTV contractor) approved contractor. This is a sponsored post.

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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

Family Balance Sheet

We have definitely dipped into this fund often, so I’m glad I strayed from his advice here. We have several things that we want to start saving for, such as a car replacement fund, some home repairs/updates, a new camper, and travel. For the time being, we’ll continue to live well, but frugally. DONE 2015.

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Meet a Reader | Mbmom11, in the Midwest

The Frugal Girl

Growing up in a large family, we had enough, but with the specter of inflation and bad job market (gotta love the 70’s and 80’s) , there was definitely a feeling of needing to make sure you had a cushion. I should have known he was special as he asked for a set of “Time-Life” home repair books when he was in college.