The Frugal Girl

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Meet a Reader | AF in Virginia

The Frugal Girl

My mother was loving and worked so hard to provide for us, but it was frequently a struggle to get food, keep heat on, and other necessities. As an adult, I can see it was likely a mixture of not enough income, high cost of living area, mismanagement of money, and kids just being expensive for single mothers particularly.

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Thankful Thursday | the heat can leave, please

The Frugal Girl

that I’ve worked online during my mothering years I have noticed that some of the adult returning students really struggle with the tech aspect of school; figuring out how to access things, log onto things, download things, and so on.

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Meet a Reader | Jennifer from Arkansas

The Frugal Girl

Now-I’m a single parent who works part-time, cares for my elder mother, homeschools & runs a farm. From my mother: she taught me mostly everything including checkbook balancing, saving, investing, economics, etc. Staying out of debt was/is very important to me & miraculously I have succeeded this far, praise God.

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

He loved it, although his mother asked him at the rehearsal dinner if he shouldn’t go get a haircut! ? My mother grew up on a farm, and from her accounts my grandmother and grandfather (who also was a foreman at the local glass factory, along with being an independent farmer) were frugal, and sometimes times were tight.

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Meet a Reader | Ginger from Texas

The Frugal Girl

I’m a 53-year-old mother of 2 (grown) and grandmother of 4. If you’ve got the questions from me and you’ve been sitting on them a while, it’s totally ok to send them in. ? Here’s Ginger! Tell us a bit about yourself. I’ve been divorced (unmarried) for 15 years. Wow, time flies.

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Meet a Reader | Biker Liz

The Frugal Girl

I’m a long-distance cyclist, a triathlete, a wife, a mother of two, a sister, a daughter, a friend, DIY-er, and a community member! And barring one job I had as a young mother, I never have. I’ve lived on both coasts, and my siblings and I were born in 3 different states!

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Meet a Reader | JenRR from the Midwest

The Frugal Girl

After I became a mother, finances became much more complicated. Visiting family in Florida, we enjoy no-cost activities like visiting their beautiful beaches! What’s the “why” behind your money-saving efforts?