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How We Frugal-ed in February 2020

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Frugal living is being intentional with our money and creative with our resources, so we have more to put towards the things that are important to us. Frugal Kitchen in February: Curbside Pick-up: I continued my new grocery routine in February. for store-bought iced tea. I’ll also use $5 as my purchase price.

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Where I found EXTRA Money in May 2021

Family Balance Sheet

I have used the extra money to pay off debt, fund family trips, or build up our Christmas savings. I calculate the per-hour rate from my plasma donations to make sure it’s a good use of my time. February 2021 – I found $3433.68. Finding extra money is a game for me. Yep, I found a $20 bill while running on the beach!

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Wait, Don’t Buy That Yet!

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Sure I knew about the ‘White sales’ – the ones stores used to have in January on sheets and towels and such, but I really hadn’t a clue that there is a best time to buy many other things! ABC News recommended waiting until February or March to buy. Most claimed that the holiday sales were of no-name TVs.

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How our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic

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What got us through financially? I am totally paraphrasing the year, but had it not been for the money in our emergency savings, we would most likely have used credit cards to survive. I still use my spreadsheet to this day! I decided to use Dave Ramsey’s 7 Baby Steps as a guide and I wrote our first Debt Freedom Plan.

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Should You Learn To Sew?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The Women in World History website reported the following as Evidence Taken by Children’s Employment Commission February 1841: “Miss — has been for several years in the dress-making business…The common hours of business are from 8 a.m. I got 160,000,000 results today using Google Chrome. til 11 P.M

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P.E.P. for the Week of January 24-28, 2010- Adjustment Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Well, I signed up for 2 of the 3 I need to complete which are to take place this weekend and one other weekend in February. We personally use Quicken and we find it works great for reviewing our finances. Live Real, Now tells us how we can save money on anything from bills to insurance. The goal was to be certified by summer.

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One Month of Spending Zero

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Feel free to start halfway through, or even have a February no-spend challenge! We always *intend* to use our leftovers but they usually end up in the back of the fridge, to be discovered only when it’s too late. We won’t be eating out AT ALL but I do have a couple of free drink rewards from Starbucks that I plan to use strategically.