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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

Family Balance Sheet

It sounds dreadful, but it is possible 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. Do you have a gym membership? 12 – Do It Yourself. Barter your gym membership!

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20 Tips for Frugal Living

For the Mommas

And if you’re not paying your bill in full every month, you’re paying a lot of extra money in interest. Do it yourself. Instead of hiring someone to do something, try doing it yourself first. If you don’t know how to do it, search online. Reduce convenience foods. Cancel subscriptions.

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10 Steps for Frugal Apartment Living

Saving Cents With Sense

Did you ever notice how there are a dozen or more wireless networks in your building and think about how silly it is that everyone is paying their own bills? Cooking means you know exactly what is going into your food, something you can only know when you prepare your meals yourself. STEP #8: Do your own cleaning.

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How to Save Money in 2016

Saving Cents With Sense

Start using coupons and you will see a 50% savings on your grocery bill – now that is a great way to spend less! Do-It-Yourself projects, crafts, recipes and more can help you save big time. Making Homemade Baby Food. Here are a few of my favorite projects: DIY Hard Lotion Bars. Make Your Own Foamy Hand Soap.

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Free eBooks: Delectable Desserts, Homemade Christmas, The Simple Joy of Christmas, and More!

Couponing 101

This is your key to a “Do-it-Yourself” preschool homeschool curriculum for your child. You’ll discover how to focus spending on what you really care about…spend less on gifts without becoming a cheapskate…slash your phone bill…pay less for food and still eat what you want…eliminate spending …”.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #231

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

It’s modeled much like Michael Pollans Food Rules with many one-page rules that give short but useful tidbits of information. Cash Flow Mantra presents My Experience as a Prosper Borrower posted at Cash Flow Mantra , saying, “I used Prosper to finance a loan to pay a large tax bill, and I found the process effortless.

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Relocating? Here’s How To Reduce Moving Costs

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

While I have used everything from U-Haul for do it yourself moves all the way up to full-service movers like Allied or Mayflower, but recently I have discovered the absolute best way to move – which happens to also be the cheapest. I know that’s how I will be doing my next move! I was looking at somewhere near $4,000.

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