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Can You Cut Expenses by a Half Million Dollars?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The strategies did keep us out of debt however, and instilled in us habits of self-reliance, attitudes of ‘we can do that’ and a measure of life-long thriftiness that we might not otherwise have had. 262,032 Food Preparation. We couldn’t save it or spend it because it was money we did not have. 91,404 Entertainment.