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Meet a Reader | Gretchen from Oregon

The Frugal Girl

We spend most of our time seeing friends and family, participating in our church activities or working on our property. I do a lot of our cooking from scratch which takes a lot of my time! As well as other “from scratch” things like my current main hobby of teaching myself how to spin yarn from our sheeps’ wool.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

Family Balance Sheet

You will likely have to accept store credit for the current price if you don’t have a receipt, but that’s better than nothing. 17 – Find a part-time job. If you need to save a lot of money and you have pinched every last penny, then consider finding a part-time job in order to find the money for your emergency fund.

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Things You Can Do To NOT Make Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

This was hubby’s hobby, but I thought maybe we could sell the birds (quail is good eating!). He did win several things, the largest being a bike (medium priced, nothing fancy) which we gave to our youngest kid. We never calculated his return on time and postage, but I’m pretty sure he was well into a hole on it.

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

Family Balance Sheet

What are your hobbies? Drew works full time for Department of Defense. Farrah works part time for Department of Defense. It’s been busy with the babies and so much work/income that hobbies lately have been sleeping (if we can) and traveling. We eat steak all year long (for a fairly good price).

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

Family Balance Sheet

You will likely have to accept a store credit for the current price if you don’t have a receipt, but that’s better than nothing. 15 – Find a part-time job. Consider what your hobbies and interests are and look for work in those fields. If you get cash back, put it in your emergency fund.

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Find out how Jessica & Her Husband Paid off $175,000 of Debt

Family Balance Sheet

What are your hobbies? Along our part-time business my husband is a senior web designer for Ramsey Solutions aka Dave Ramsey. We live a pretty busy lives and when given free weekends at home we love spending time at home on our little farm. We named our price at $100. Tell us about you and your family.

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50 Best Small-Business Ideas – NerdWallet

Savings Corner

With the popularity of podcasts from newspapers and other media providers, private individuals have been able to jump on the trend—turning a hobby into a fully-fledged business. You’ll need access to a commercial kitchen, a part-time staff of servers and a couple of assistant cooks to start. are independently owned.