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5 Ways to Trim Your Budget For Your Child’s College Fund

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Guest Author Bio: Monique loves to blog, and writes about thrifty living and product reviews on her site : Stretching the One Income Dollar. Place these copies in the home office and make them readily available for review at any time. Eating Out. Look at the pattern of how money was spent in prior months eating out.

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11 Simple Meal Planning Tips

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When your kitchen is organized, you avoid buying duplicates and it is easier to cross reference what is on sale, the ingredients needed for recipes, and what you have on hand. Is there swim team practice, mid-week church activities or a late night at the office? Keep your pantry, freezer and refrigerator organized. Avoid Boredom.

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Meet Aja. She & her husband Paid Off $110,000 in Debt

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She writes about family, finances and faith at her blog, Principles of Increase. I own a software consultancy that I run from home and my husband is a letter carrier with the post office. We have the money now to buy 20 dining room sets if we wanted to, but we are opting to live as frugally as possible now. Where are you from?

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How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt

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How we got to six figures of non-mortgage debt: In the summer of 2012, we found an opportunity to purchase an office building for our small business. I don’t make a lot of income on this blog, and it has definitely decreased recently as I’ve reduced my hours spent blogging. Everything looked great on paper. .”

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

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He pointed out that I had studied sculpture and this was sort of similar, so I used a pair of office scissors and cut his hair a week before our wedding. I have a rule now that if I want to buy a book, I need to donate one. And art supplies: I like to paint and draw, so every now and then I splash out.

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Meet a Reader | Biker Liz

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The Frugal Girl is one of the few blogs whose URL I have memorized, so I’ve never missed an entry! I biked to the library, to the mall, to the TCBY, to visit my parents at their offices in the university, to the pool, basically everywhere a kid would want to go. Oh, I think it’s been nearly 15 years now!

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Our 2018 Financial Goals

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I want to challenge myself to rethink our purchases by taking advantage of more cost effective solutions, like borrowing, buying second hand, or just making do with what we already have. You can only cut so much from a budget, so to increase our cash flow, we’ll need to earn extra income by growing our small business and growing my blog.