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Meet a Reader | Gretchen from Oregon

The Frugal Girl

My cute kids when they were little I used to be a Spanish teacher until I stopped working to stay home with my kids. We spend most of our time seeing friends and family, participating in our church activities or working on our property. I do a lot of our cooking from scratch which takes a lot of my time!

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Meet a Reader | Midwest Andrea

The Frugal Girl

I have an English degree and I work in scholarly book publishing as an editor (developmental and acquiring editor, not the grammar and spelling kind of editor). I mostly work remotely which is very, very nice. The cats In my free time, I (probably obviously, considering my career) love to read, and I’m in a local book club.

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Interview with a Self-Made Millionaire

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Instead of spending his birthday check for $10, my husband put it in savings – every single time. My husband worked overtime – 10 hours a day and a lot of weekends. I worked a part time job the weekends he wasn’t working. Eating out or going to a movie were once a year events.

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50 Best Small-Business Ideas – NerdWallet

Savings Corner

What is your ideal work environment? Whatever your field of expertise, starting a consulting business is a great way to make a sizable income while working on your own terms. As an independent marketing professional, you can work with small businesses who don’t have the in-house bandwidth to execute their marketing plans.

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Yes Virginia, There is a Money Tree

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Earning a sub-poverty-level income for decades as a Catholic priest, he focused on his investments in his free time, and was worth nearly $1 million when he died. This 102-year-old former part-time janitor and dry cleaner left $2.3 Put the dividends and capital gains to work buying more shares. Genesio Morlacci.

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

Family Balance Sheet

works in outbound sales, and I teach part-time. We have a huge heart for missions work. working full time at a low-paying job and going to grad school full time, while my husband was working multiple jobs just to help us make ends meet. during the time you were working on your debt?

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Things You Can Do To NOT Make Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I’m not sure I have the greatest answer to that, but here are some things we tried that did NOT work out for us – at all. We converted the non-working shower off our bedroom into the incubator/baby quail chick spot. What less than satisfactory part time jobs have you done to try to make a buck?

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