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Day 11 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Avoid One Use Disposables

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My grocery budget doesn’t just include food, but also household goods, paper products, and cleaning supplies which unfortunately can take up a chunk of the budget. Check out 10 Paper Products to Avoid, and What to Replace Them With for my top money saving ideas.

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Reduce Your Spending in 3 Budget Categories | 31 Days to Organize Your Finances

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We’ll talk about cash flow, budgets, debts, and all of the nitty gritty of our finances that might not be fun to talk about, but are so important to discuss. Yesterday’s assignment was to figure out where you are spending money. Today’s assignment: Reduce Your Spending in at least 3 Budget Categories.

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How to Use Pinterest to Save Money on Groceries

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This post is Day 12 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending. How to Use Pinterest to Save Money on Groceries. Pinterest is A Gold Mine for Money Saving Grocery Tips. Do a simple search on a topic or follow my Grocery Budget Tips board where I regularly pin tips that I find around the web.

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How to Save Money on Groceries

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Groceries is one budget category that can get out of control very quickly, and that’s before inflation. However, it can be an easy budget category to manage, but it takes some planning, skill, and organization. These are strategies I use weekly to help keep my grocery bill in line with our budget.

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How I Use Pinterest for Meal Planning

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Meal planning is #1 way that I save money on groceries. Without a doubt, the 30-60 minutes I spend on Sunday planning our upcoming week’s meals saves me time, money and my sanity. Do you need to reduce your grocery spending? Seriously, what did we do before Pinterest!

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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25 Ways to Find Money for your Emergency Fund. To kick start your emergency fund savings, take the next 31 days and challenge yourself to find $1000. Make it a game and be creative when looking for money within your budget and finding new ways to earn extra money. Put the money saved into your emergency fund.

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Take Control of Your Money in 2015

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This is the year that we will control our money and our debt and fear will not control us. I’ll continue to offer additional money saving tips, ideas, strategies and recipes like I always have, but I have some new themes that I will be starting next week. Weekly Meals on a Budget. Budget Financial Freedom'

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