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How We Frugal-ed in February 2020

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Frugal living is being intentional with our money and creative with our resources, so we have more to put towards the things that are important to us. We want to live WELL on LESS Money. I cannot stress enough how much this has saved me time and I really think money too. Shepard’s Pie from Jo Cooks.

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How We Frugal-ed through April 2020

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April 2020 might go down as the most frugal month of my lifetime. We’ve always been a frugal household by being intentional with our money, but we have been affected financially by the pandemic, so we need to stretch our dollars even further. The post How We Frugal-ed through April 2020 appeared first on Family Balance Sheet.

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How We Frugal-ed in January!

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Welcome to my first “How We Frugal-ed” recap of 2020. Frugal living is being intentional with our money and creative with our resources, so we have more to put towards the things that are important to us. We want to live WELL, on LESS Money. Cook Once, Eat Many Times! I bought 4 and cooked in the slow cooker.

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Meet a Reader | Ginger from Texas

The Frugal Girl

I had two older siblings, but my sister passed away in a car accident in 2000 and my brother passed away from MS in 2020 so now I’m an only child. How did you get interested in saving money? What’s an embarrassing money mistake you’ve made? I have put money into learning various ways to make money.

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Our 2023 Financial Goals

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In 2020, our financial goals were to read, research, and understand both college and retirement planning. <<— Once we paid off our non-mortgage debts in 2019, we started saving some of the debt snowball money for college savings. That money didn’t go away once we paid off the debts, it just went toward other things.

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How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt

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As hard as it was to do, we stopped contributing to our retirement for about three years and applied that money to these loans. In 2020, we still use and are thankful for Medi-share. My grocery strategies: How to Save Money on Groceries. Someone else cooks and cleans up–it’s truly awesome! Restaurants.

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