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How We Frugal-ed in August 2022

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Another month of 2022 is in the books and another month of frugal-ing. For starters, I didn’t donate plasma this month and that is usually my biggest source of extra cash. My found money in August was made up of a lot of little amounts and unfortunately, was not as high as in previous months. My Frugal Shenanigans!

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My 2020 Financial Goals & A Recap of 2019

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ALSO our 2019 Financial Goal!). I feel like I made a lot of trips to the thrift store to donate our stuff, but my house will tell you otherwise. This is a work in progress and I feel it will always by my goal. This is my referral Amazon link, but I found the book at the library.) We knocked this out of the park.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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Dave Ramsey suggests in his book, The Total Money Makeover (affiliate link) , that you create a starter emergency fund of $1000. Recently I tried something completely new to me and earned $1000 in less than 3 months by donating plasma–see the details in #14. Bring in Extra Money: 14 – Donate Plasma.

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Identify Your Money Motivations

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Your Money Personality A little more than a year ago, I read a book called First Comes Love, Then Comes Money: A Couple’s Guide to Financial Communication. Do you want to donate to charity and make the world a better place? Well, this is especially true with your financial. What Do You Want Your Money to Accomplish?

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Carnival of Personal Finance #316- Family Edition

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They are also there working with you to help you reach your goals; even those financial goals. Nicole from Nicole and Maggie: Grumpy Rumblings of the Untenured tells her story about giving Self Serving Donations. Jason Price from One Money Design interviews Chuck Bentley: The Root of Riches Book Interview.

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

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Did you follow a particular debt freedom plan or book, such as Dave. What are your financial goals now? trips, donating to our church, helping friends in need. This book shares debt-free stories. And we started making small payments each month to go. towards our debt. on to the next one. We already had a small.

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

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Did you follow a particular debt freedom plan or book, such as Dave Ramsey or Debt-Proof Living? We took his Financial Peace course once before we were married and twice afterwards…and now Barry teaches it. I taught coupon and frugal living workshops and put any donated money toward the mortgage. Live junk and debt free!

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