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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

Our daughter is 24 and was adopted from Eastern Europe when she was one week short of a year old. He married the love of his life almost two years ago, so now we have a daughter-in-law, too. Our mom stayed home to raise us kids; she went to work part-time in the local school system after both my brother and I were in school.

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Revenge Spending and Other Married Money Tricks

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In our early marriage years, I would pay the bills, but over the years we have alternated the task. Because of that, I urged my daughters-in-law to develop their own earning power. At the time, I was working part time for about 8 hours a weekend, earning minimum wage. Take turns at money management as well.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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Read 11 Simple Menu Planning Tips to learn how to reduce your grocery bill without making everyone in your family miserable. 3 – Reduce your monthly utility bills. Collect your bills and start shopping around for new vendors. Another idea would be to stop spending your $1 or $5 dollar bills and collect them.

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

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works in outbound sales, and I teach part-time. medical bills, a small credit card, both of our cars, and student loans. burden for us at first were the medical bills. About six months after I started teaching full time, I remember realizing. bills, I felt like our checks were spent the second we received them.

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