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Our Big Financial Goal for 2016

Family Balance Sheet

Thankfully, we have worked through those trials and the experience actually made a positive impact on our finances. I have made a pact with myself that if I don’t already own something that I need, I will either: make do with what I have, find said item at a thrift store, borrow, or forget about it. Choose Thrift First.

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Saving Tips & Free Crediting Monitoring

For the Mommas

Create a budget. Bring your lunch to work more frequently. Do you really need cable television or can you make do without? By refinancing, consumers could quickly save hundreds of dollars every year without having to make significant cuts to their budget. that gym you no longer use.)

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

Frugal Luxuries

need to descale the glass shower doors in master bath using a citric acid solution Continue going through and organizing all my old F rugal Times: Making-Do With Dignity and Frugal Luxuries newsletters along with my collection of vintage ephemera. this while working on the de-cluttering (and other) projects. the carpet.

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Our 2018 Financial Goals

Family Balance Sheet

2 Additional Goals: If we save the $10k early, we’d like to work on the following 2 goals. 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. Move up the Student Loan Payoff Date.

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Meet a Reader | Mbmom11, in the Midwest

The Frugal Girl

I volunteer at my kids’ school at lunch time and other events. He is also thrifty and is much better at budgeting than I. It’s not a big splurge, but I take my kids at home out to McDonald’s for lunch once a week. (I’ve I’ve been doing it for 28 years now?) A cake with a perfect swirl!