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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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Our emergency fund has saved us countless times and it will save us once again with the truck. If you can’t answer with the word, CASH , then please, set yourself up for success and build an emergency fund. Follow these three action steps and the list of ideas below to find the cash for your fund.

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Our 2018 Financial Goals

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However, we could use a year of extra thriftiness to find any extra funds to accelerate the $10k. We loosely based it on Dave Ramsey’s 7 Baby Step process, but modified it to address our needs. Save a starter Home Emergency Fund. The Guidelines for 2018: 1. Be Exceptionally Frugal. 2017 Update. 2016 Update.

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P.E.P for the Week of January 17-21/11- Spread the Happiness Edition

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Young and Thrifty looks at Canadian vs. US Travel rewards cards and finds that the canucks are being short changed. Get Rich Slowly shares with us how we can all put money in an emergency fund no matter what our financial situtation is. Kevin at Sweating the Big Stuff tells us why we shouldn’t save for an emergency fund.

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Our 2017 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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” To get through that time, we crafted our Debt Freedom Plan , based on Dave Ramsey’s Baby Steps, but tailored to meet our own needs and self-employed lifestyle. We dramatically reduced our spending by cutting our cable TV and landline , shopping thrifty, eating out less often , and lowering our grocery bill.

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