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How to be a Frugal Family

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Limit eating out and the activities that are outside your budget such as expensive movies and far away vacations. This can cause wastage, and this can be a loophole in your budget as well. The unused or unconsumed items thrown in the trash equals money down the drain. Well here are some. Creating a Budget is Easy.

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Find Out How Ruth and Her Husband Paid off Their Mortgage

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She is the author of the successful website, Living Well Spending Less , where she writes about finding the Good Life on a budget. We paid off the remainder of our mortgage, which was about $150,000, as well as some law school loans, and a car loan. We also stopped eating out and even went on regular spending freezes.

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Meet Amanda & Daniel. They Paid Off $68,000 in Debt in 8 Months.

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Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally? For years Daniel did the finances all by himself and Amanda would stay in the allotted budget amounts, but it didn’t work well for us. We definitely spend a lot more money on eating out at restaurants and using babysitters now that we are debt free.

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Find out How Drew & Farrah Paid off $200k of debt, including their HOME

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We won’t tell you what it had profited, but its done VERY well – it all started with a small idea that we could chew off and God blessed it. Well that’s not in the budget so you better sell something on craigslist… Lamp sold, go get a pedi now. Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally?

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Find out how Lydia & her Husband Paid off $36,000 in Debt in 2 Years

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We gave up eating out, cable, driving as many places. Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally? Well, not really. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. We gave up a lot of things. We also lived in this really cheap rental house for three years.

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Meet a Reader | Lina from Germany

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But life is of course not all work and studying and I like to enjoy beautiful things which are nature (I am equally up for a day at the sea or hiking in a forest), my allotment*, and cooking. Well, and that’s how I ended up on Kristen’s blog. And eating out wasn’t the exception for me then.

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How this Couple Eliminated $180,000 of Debt in 12 Months!

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We started cooking at home more, a big issue for us was eating out. Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally? As well as me starting up my education full time and completing that. Sell stuff, say no to vacations and eating out, and just get through this time.

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