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How to Take a Frugal (or Free) Vacation or Trip

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I now have the Amtrak Guest Rewards MasterCard Card from Chase, which gives me 2 points (track miles) for each $1 I spend on Amtrak travel and 1 point for every dollar I spend elsewhere. If you are a new cardholder you usually get some bonus points upon signing up, and the Amtrak card gives you 12,000 points to start with.

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Why Use Cash?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

She envisioned me running out of gasoline and not being able to get home. Gas stations, some hotels, some restaurants are examples of places you might negotiate a cash discount. If you didn’t have cash to spend that day, you may well have been stranded out of gas. Sometimes you get cash discounts. They had no cash.

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Ways for Busy Parents to Teach Young Children About Money

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They start to recognize money and to be able to tell the difference between different coins and bills (but probably won’t be able to understand that the coins have different monetary values). Explain how the checkout process works, point out the employees in the store and talk about what they do. Buying gasoline.

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