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4 Financial Lessons Your Parents Forgot to Teach You

Saving Cents With Sense

With PNC reporting that the average 20-something faces $45,000 in debt, and Generation Opportunity finding a 15.9 This is especially important if you get a 401K match from your employer, as that’s free money. Cars represent a significant chunk of your budget, with car payments, repairs, maintenance, insurance, and gas.

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Meet a Reader | Kim from Iowa

The Frugal Girl

Also, if something needs repaired, we always look into whether it makes sense for us to try tackling the job. An electric board was going out on our dryer and once we discovered that the repair/replacement was the same price as a new dryer, we decided to try repairing it ourselves. One big one is when I left my toxic job.

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