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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

How long have you been reading The Frugal Girl? I started reading The Frugal Girl about two years before I escaped from the workforce, which was almost eight years ago. We lived off my salary and banked Alan’s even before we were married so that we could build our own house (literally), paying cash as we went. Made me proud!

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

For 20 or so years I’ve been homeschooling my kids, and am now down to about 1 1/2 (one full-time homeschooler, and one doing College Credit Plus with some support). How long have you been reading The Frugal Girl? I know I found The Frugal Girl through the Non-Consumer Advocate, and I’ve read nearly all the archives.

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How Krystal and Josh paid off $80k in 4 years!

Family Balance Sheet

We live in Richmond, Virginia, and have two of the best girls: McKayla, 10, and Shayne, 6. works in outbound sales, and I teach part-time. We want our girls to have an. working full time at a low-paying job and going to grad school full time, while my husband was working multiple jobs just to help us make ends meet.

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An Easy Way to Save for Irregular Expenses

For the Mommas

Online banks such as ING Direct make the creation of sinking funds easy: you can literally open a new subaccount with a few clicks, making it possible to have five or ten separate sinking funds according to your family’s needs. Bank Your Savings. Another option is to simply bank your savings. Bank your savings.