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Money Matters - How to Build Healthy Financial Habits and Prevent Future Debt

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Instead, you may want to check out thrift stores or buy classic, high-quality items that will last longer. So, when “unpleasant surprises” arise, like a car repair or medical bill, you’re confident that you have enough money set aside to cover these. on your credit card. Make smart choices with credit.

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10 Ideas to Find Cash for Christmas

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Our goal is to NOT put our Christmas purchases on a credit card. January will be one giant nightmare when the credit card bills start rolling in. We paid for many of our Christmas purchases on a credit card and then hustled in January 2013 to pay it off. Hopefully, that’s your goal too.

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10 Ideas to Find Cash for Christmas

Family Balance Sheet

Our goal is to NOT put our Christmas purchases on a credit card. January will be one giant nightmare when the credit card bills start rolling in. We paid for many of our Christmas purchases on a credit card and then hustled in January 2013 to pay it off. Hopefully, that’s your goal too.

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Put Your Budget on a Diet: Saving Money by Living Medium

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Because so many people are living on incomes that cannot support their spending habits; living on borrowed money, moving money from account to account, buying, spending, hiding the bills, and eventually the ‘dog of debt’ will catch up to you and bite you right in your credit report.

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How to Get By on One Income When Baby Arrives

For the Mommas

Credit card debt and high-interest loans are costing you money that you could use in the long-run. If you’re not able to do that, at least shop around for credit cards that have a lower interest rate or allow free balance transfers. You may even be able to eliminate larger bills by getting rid of the service altogether.

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20 Tips for Frugal Living

For the Mommas

Shop around at garage sales, thrift stores and online classifieds for furniture and other household items. Stop using your credit cards. Credit cards make buying too easy and you usually end up buying too much when you use them. And if you rent, save money and then invest the difference. Plan a movie or game night.

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

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We paid down mostly student loans, vehicles and business credit card debt ( we already own a home outright ). It would be hard to have the laid back life we envisioned with both of us working frantically just to pay bills (mostly made of debt.) We still look for bargains and shop at thrift stores.

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