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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

Cut your s pending , BUT still live well: No one wants to read, “ cut your spending “, because what they hear is live like a miser. This first group of ideas is about cutting back–but still living well–AND putting that money not spent into your emergency savings. 17 – Find a part-time job.

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Find out How Brian & His Wife Paid off $109,000 in Credit Card Debt

Family Balance Sheet

I work full time in IT and my wife works part time in retail. We were planning our family summer vacation and came to the conclusion that we had no money to pay for it. We cut way back on entertainment and vacations during debt repayment. We live in New York. We are a close family that likes to laugh.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

Family Balance Sheet

Now it’s time to FIND THE MONEY! Stop Spending, BUT still live well: 1 – Declare a “Needs Only” month. 15 – 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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Find out How Drew & Farrah Paid off $200k of debt, including their HOME

Family Balance Sheet

Drew works full time for Department of Defense. Farrah works part time for Department of Defense. We won’t tell you what it had profited, but its done VERY well – it all started with a small idea that we could chew off and God blessed it. Were there arguments during the time you were working on your debt?

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Things You Can Do To NOT Make Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Now that I think back, that probably provided the neighbors with quite a bit of entertainment as well. We never calculated his return on time and postage, but I’m pretty sure he was well into a hole on it. What less than satisfactory part time jobs have you done to try to make a buck? Were you successful?

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

Our mom stayed home to raise us kids; she went to work part-time in the local school system after both my brother and I were in school. 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. Now I wish those dollars had gone into our savings accounts.