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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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And when dining out, at least follow these 15 Smart Tips to Save Money When Eating Out. We gave up cable many years ago , but realize now we simply traded one cable bill into TOO many subscriptions. Another friend sells her homemade artisan bread and another friend sells hand-sewn dolls at craft fairs.

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Interview with a Self-Made Millionaire

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Eating out or going to a movie were once a year events. We especially never put anything consumable (like gas, food, eating out, movies and etc) on a credit card. If it couldn’t be done for free, we didn’t do it or did it very, very seldom. Taking a vacation – well, we only went on 3 trips in our 15 years.

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