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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

We also like to have enough means to travel and visit family and friends, so being frugal in some areas helps us be generous in others. I’ve often wished to be able to go back in time and undo that house purchase, it would have saved our family so much trouble and money! What’s your best frugal win?

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I said good-bye to Cable and Hello to being smart

Coupons Do Work

I wanted to cry, because I was supposed to drive to Virginia to go to my Great – Uncle’s Funeral who was getting buried at Arlington Cemetery and I couldn’t go. It scared me and I did think this was all a sign… I told my family what had happened and they understood. My daughter had to get a baby tooth pulled.

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Meet Stacy. She and her husband paid off $20,000 in 8 Months.

Family Balance Sheet

Tell us about you and your family. We live in Southwest Virginia – I was born and raised here. I was raised debt-free and Barry was introduced to a debt-free lifestyle from his grandmother and aunt. Now we are saving to buy a minivan (which I said I would never drive, but an expanding family has changed me.

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