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8 Action Steps for a Frugal February!

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How are you doing with the financial goals you made for 2023? Unfortunately, many people abandon their New Year’s goals by mid-January and everything goes downhill from there. The goal of Frugal February is NOT to feel deprived, but rather to find creative ways to get through the month without unnecessary spending.

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Frugal February

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How did you do with your financial goals in January? We have only one financial goal for 2019 and we made some progress in January. It was a great feeling to make that payment, and to continue the momentum I want to double down on our financial goal. So I am declaring a Frugal February.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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And while I don’t like parting with our money, I am grateful that this repair won’t send us into financial distress. And while I don’t like parting with our money, I am grateful that this repair won’t send us into financial distress. He took the truck to our mechanic because a dashboard light came on.

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Meet Amanda & Daniel. They Paid Off $68,000 in Debt in 8 Months.

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Tell us about you and your family. San Antonio, Texas is our home when we aren’t traveling the world. We realized that we wanted to travel as a family and the only thing keeping us from seeing the world was money. Daniel took on an extra job doing support work for an online company that he could do from home.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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And while I don’t like parting with our money, I am grateful that this repair won’t send us into financial distress. And while I don’t like parting with our money, I am grateful that this repair won’t send us into financial distress. He took the truck to our mechanic because a light came on on the dashboard.

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Meet Carrie. She Paid Off $14,000 in Debt in 14 Months.

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Tell us about you and your family. I got tired of being left at home because I had a day job, so now we get to travel together and create our own adventures. I was only bringing home a net income of $3,000 a month, so paying $1,000 each month towards my debt was a lot of money, and took a lot of sacrificing. Where are you from?

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Find Out How Olivia & Her Husband Paid off Their Mortgage in 33 Months

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Tell us about you and your family. I’m a former 3rd grade teacher, but now a stay at home mom and a graphic designer of Joyful Art Designs. Our plans for me to be a stay at home mom on one teacher salary. Where are you from? What do you and your spouse do for a living? What are your hobbies? I also blog at Snyders Tell All.

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