The Frugal Girl

MARCH 4, 2024

How did you get interested in saving money? I learned to save money by watching my parents. (I I still remember saving my change as a kid so I could “shop” for books at yard sales.) My dad was a blue-collar worker – a machine operator on the railroad who sometimes got laid off for periods of time in the winter.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 4, 2011

The same kind of over thinking tends to infect financial advice, as well, especially when it’s doled out to college students who are desperate to come up with ways to make a few extra bucks between studying for exams and balancing their social lives. Eat right and exercise, and you’ll be fine. Happily, that’s not the case.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 20, 2011

I’ve unintentionally gone too far a few times, and in doing so, learned valuable lessons about trying too hard to live a frugal life. Losing Valuable Time. Being employed full-time and running two home-based businesses over the past few years, I’ve learned the true meaning of the phrase “time is money.&#

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Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 20, 2017

When my husband and I got married, we were making hardly any money. working full time at a low-paying job and going to grad school full time, while my husband was working multiple jobs just to help us make ends meet. get better once I had my masters degree and could teach full-time. up one thing.”

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Family Balance Sheet

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

My husband is an extremely hard worker as he works and goes to school full time. It was the first time we consistently told ourselves NO to purchases. What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. No new clothes, no vacation, no extra anything.

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Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 1, 2015

I work full time in IT and my wife works part time in retail. What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. If you track your spending for 2-3 months by saving every receipt you get a good idea where every dollar is going. What are your hobbies? .

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For the Mommas

JANUARY 11, 2011

So you can save money at the store. but the question is what are you doing with that savings. Shelly from Coupon Teacher gives us some ideas about how we can save our savings. I see it on frugal blogs all the time. “I and saved over $30!”. Sometimes I wish for a way to really “save” those savings.

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The Frugal Girl

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I also had a blog several years ago (a little more on that below), but these days I write periodic essays at A Word on Substack as well as short, inspiring (I hope) messages most mornings at Good Notes. The focus was on saving money and resources and living in an eco-conscious way. How did you get interested in saving money?

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 10, 2012

Frank presents Passively Managed Funds posted at Individual Investor Strategies , saying, “Short-term mutual fund trading is a zero sum game played against other very well informed mutual fund traders and other securities market traders. But how do these new offers really stack up when it comes to saving on travel?

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Family Balance Sheet

JULY 13, 2016

Drew works full time for Department of Defense. Farrah works part time for Department of Defense. What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. Were there arguments during the time you were working on your debt? We are from Cincinnati, OH.

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Savings Corner

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Your credit history, detailed in your credit report and summarized by credit scores, shows how well you’ve handled borrowed money — and using a credit card responsibly is one of the quickest and easiest ways to build credit. Among the situations in which good credit comes in handy: Borrowing money.

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Family Balance Sheet

JULY 2, 2015

It took us two years of my husband working full-time at his job and then using every other second to work on the house. We sacrificed a lot of time together and took on a lot of stress during this time. But in the end, we ended up making enough profit to pay off our debt entirely and still put some into savings!

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The Frugal Girl

JANUARY 22, 2024

For 20 or so years I’ve been homeschooling my kids, and am now down to about 1 1/2 (one full-time homeschooler, and one doing College Credit Plus with some support). How did you get interested in saving money? What’s the “why” behind your money-saving efforts? Maybe four years?

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The Frugal Girl

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Brian and me at the Sears Tower Having our first child just one month after our first wedding anniversary was NOT in the plan, but so far it’s worked out well! How did you get interested in saving money? They had me, and then my mom decided to go back to school full-time and get a PhD.

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Family Balance Sheet

DECEMBER 10, 2014

What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. I took on extra work outside of my full-time accounting job. I also found small ways to earn extra money, specifically flipping yard sale finds for a profit on eBay. Her ideas were simple to implement and only took a few minutes a day.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 26, 2011

Like I mentioned a couple weeks ago, my goal here at PET is to bring a wide range of viewpoints and strategies to the world of personal finance, living green, saving money, and being healthy. You have all met Derek from Life And My Finances who is bringing you tips on career building and earning extra money.

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