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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

Family Balance Sheet

Our emergency fund has saved us countless times and it will save us once again with the truck. If you can’t answer with the word, CASH , then please, set yourself up for success and build your emergency fund. Follow these three action steps and the list of ideas below to find the cash for your fund.

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Money Matters - How to Build Healthy Financial Habits and Prevent Future Debt

Motherhood Moments

In this blog post, we'll share some of the top financial habits that can help you improve your financial mindset and reduce your chances of falling head over heels in debt. Emergencies do happen, so it's essential to have a savings cushion to fall back on when unexpected expenses pop up. Save for a rainy day. Thanks for reading!

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Friday Links – Too Swamped Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Working to build your emergency fund? Read up on emergency fund basics at Money Smart Guides. Read Club Thrifty’s perspective on being able to afford living until 90 to see if you’re on track to live out your golden years in a financially stable way. Figuring out a budget and how to meet those goals?

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Carnival of Personal Finance #384 – Time for a Laugh Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Each clip corresponds with one of the blog posts included this week. Young from Young and Thrifty presents A Woman’s Perspective on Engagement Rings , and says, “As a woman who has been dating her boyfriend for the past 7 years, bought a home and moved in together for the past 1.5

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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. We are almost done with our 3-6 month emergency fund and will begin maxing out our retirement accounts. This post is linked to Thrifty Thursday at Living Well, Spending Less and The Thrifty Couple. Tell us about you and your family.

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Our 2018 Financial Goals

Family Balance Sheet

However, we could use a year of extra thriftiness to find any extra funds to accelerate the $10k. 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. Save a starter Home Emergency Fund. The Guidelines for 2018: 1.

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P.E.P for the Week of January 17-21/11- Spread the Happiness Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Young and Thrifty looks at Canadian vs. US Travel rewards cards and finds that the canucks are being short changed. Get Rich Slowly shares with us how we can all put money in an emergency fund no matter what our financial situtation is. Kevin at Sweating the Big Stuff tells us why we shouldn’t save for an emergency fund.

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