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Gwyneth Paltrow’s $29 Food Stamp Budget – I pay $30 a week no food stamps

Coupons Do Work

Actually I live on $30 a week and I have a family of four – a dog and my kids do activities. All I had to do was what my grandmother had taught me. I buy them on sale, with the exception the kids feet grow when there is no sale (for gym shoes). Heck, I actually survive on $30 bucks a week for the family.

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Exploring Veteran’s Benefits

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

For many years, this man’s wife and family lived near poverty after the Grandfather died of this disease. Knowing about and utilizing this pension would have made my Mother-in-law’s life somewhat easier while she was growing up in that deceased Veteran’s household. Burial in a veteran’s cemetery.

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

We also like to have enough means to travel and visit family and friends, so being frugal in some areas helps us be generous in others. I’ve often wished to be able to go back in time and undo that house purchase, it would have saved our family so much trouble and money! Also, growing our own food.

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10 Ways to $ave Energy Comfortably

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Not only will you see your monthly bills reduced you will know full well that you are truly helping the environment by not only burning less fuel but by reducing the amount of energy extracted from the earth and the subsequent waste that result from such activities. The benefits can be remarkable. 1 – Create a Monthly Hearty Meal.

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Guest Post: 10 Ways to $ave Energy Comfortably

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Not only will you see your monthly bills reduced you will know full well that you are truly helping the environment by not only burning less fuel but by reducing the amount of energy extracted from the earth and the subsequent waste that result from such activities. The benefits can be remarkable. 1 – Create a Monthly Hearty Meal.

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Do the Times in Which You Live Shape Your Finances?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If my great-grandmother’s generation hadn’t labored for suffrage and my Mother’s generation hadn’t become Rosie the Riveters, would she have trained me to believe I could do anything and would I and the hordes of other baby boom women ended up in the workforce?

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Meet Stacy. She and her husband paid off $20,000 in 8 Months.

Family Balance Sheet

Tell us about you and your family. I was raised debt-free and Barry was introduced to a debt-free lifestyle from his grandmother and aunt. We wanted to be free to give as much as we could… and to never have to worry about bills. I’m not telling you to stay home and grow roots so that you can never leave the premises.

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