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How to Do Mardi Gras at Home

Shereen Travels Cheap

Make a YouTube playlist of Mardi Gras parades to play in the background, throw on some zydeco music, and mix up some mint juleps. It's free for you, but your purchases enable me to continue to run this blog and bring you travel tips, so thanks in advance. Or maybe you just want some banners to hang around your door.

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Staycations Are For Suckers!

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Sometimes the family vacation is put on hold because there just isn’t enough money in the budget to pay the skyrocketing costs of airfare. This is an incredibly affordable way to travel AND this cost covers travel for more than one person, unlike the airfare, and there aren’t annoying baggage fees. Weekend Getaways.

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Meet Aja. She & her husband Paid Off $110,000 in Debt

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She writes about family, finances and faith at her blog, Principles of Increase. We are a musical family and love plugging into our urban community through volunteering and mentoring local youth. Since I was getting paid for working and hotel/airfare was covered, we were able to celebrate with a small net effect on our budget.

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