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How We Frugal-ed in November 2020

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Also, I tend to keep pieces for a long time, as I learned years ago that buying quality clothing lasts much longer than fast fashion. While I like to shop at thrift stores, I have a hard time finding TALL length jeans for my 5’10 frame and I was in need of new jeans. I won’t need to buy jeans for a few years. $20

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How We Frugal-ed in February 2020

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Instead of buying gallons of iced tea at the store which can cost about $2.50 This is how we like our iced tea, so if you decide to make your own version, you may want more or less tea bags/sugar. When on sale, it costs me about 50 cents to make a pitcher of iced tea vs. at least $2.50 for store-bought iced tea.

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How our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic

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We followed Dave Ramsey’s debt snowball method and paid the smallest loan off first while making the minimum payments on the other 4 loans. January & February 2020 – Life is good! March 2020 arrived. Our non-mortgage debt was in the six figures when we started this plan and included 4 business loans and a student loan.

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