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Our Big Financial Goal for 2016

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I will focus on being content with what I have and I’m pretty sure I’ll survive. You can only cut so much from a budget, so to fill in our shortfall, we’ll need to also earn extra income by growing our small business and growing my blog income. We will continue to save for travel and it is already part of our budget.

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Take Control of Your Money in 2015

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In 2014, the Grocery Budget Challenge encouraged us to keep our grocery spending in line and to be creative with our meal planning so that we do not over-spend. Weekly Meals on a Budget. Maintaining a grocery budget is a weekly process for me. When I blow off meal planning, I blow up our grocery budget. How We Saved.

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Additional Income Needed: Work for Others or Yourself?

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Following on from my previous post on Starting Your Own Website , Holly from Coupon Croc is guest posting with some additional tips and ideas: When you have trimmed all you can from your budget and still find little room to breathe, you might look for ways to increase your income. Enjoy this site?

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Make Your Own Board Game

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The year before, after all, I successfully made up a role playing game to reinforce the idea of budgets and household cash flow. I will probably use an old garage sale board game as the base, and just glue the printed game mat to it. Although I never before had tried to create a board game, I had no doubt I could do it.

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50 Best Small-Business Ideas – NerdWallet

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Smart money moves for your business Grow your small business with tailored insights, recommendations, and expert content. With limited budgets and resources, many small businesses are apt to hire an outside consultant to help assist them with installing, managing, updating, and troubleshooting their technology. are independently owned.

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"Potential Accomplishments" and The Natural Magic of List-Making: Creating a Master~List

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My micro-goals for achieving this are layered and consist of a series of tasks such as bringing the extra television downstairs to replace the old one in the nook. moving the sewing machine to the spare room (I hope to set up a separate area in there, once it's been thoroughly de-cluttered and reorganized).painting the carpet.

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Our 2018 Financial Goals

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I want to focus on being content with what I have and I’m pretty sure I’ll survive. 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. I want to go through our basement, closets, and garage to look for unused items that we can sell.