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10 Ideas to Find Cash for Christmas

Family Balance Sheet

The season of family, faith, food, and…shopping… collective sigh… The spending part of Christmas can get crazy, so I’ve come up with a list of ideas to find some extra cash for your Christmas spending if you’re coming up short. Part-Time Job. The Christmas season is upon us. Tips, baby!

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10 Ideas to Find Cash for Christmas

Family Balance Sheet

The season of family, faith, food and…shopping… collective sigh… The spending part of Christmas can get crazy, so I’ve come up with a list of last minute ideas to find some extra cash for your Christmas spending. Part-Time Job. The Christmas season is upon us. Tips, baby!

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The Best and Worst Times to Side Hustle

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you take on part time work while collecting unemployment you have to report it and give up a quarter of your weekly unemployment pay for each day of part time work, no matter how few hours or how little the earnings. Oddly enough, side hustling when you’re unemployed doesn’t always make financial sense.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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Collect your bills and start shopping around for new vendors. 9 – Collect your change. Another idea would be to stop spending your $1 or $5 dollar bills and collect them. 17 – Find a part-time job. Related Reading: How to Save Money on Groceries. 3 – Reduce your monthly utility bills.

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Revenge Spending and Other Married Money Tricks

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

When hubby gets on a collectible kick and buys expensive WWII artifacts, I get myself a new electronic toy, for instance. At the time, I was working part time for about 8 hours a weekend, earning minimum wage. He suspected something was wrong when he didn’t see any money coming out of my part time job.

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Working on My Time Management

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For 6 years, my kids have dictated my schedule and now I am juggling working part time outside of the home, shuttling my kids to soccer practice, managing our home, spending quality time with my family, training for my first half-marathon in October, and finding time to work in my blog and other projects.

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Seven Retirement Lessons Learned

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

When I was preparing to retire, I tried to go part time – but my company wasn’t willing to fill my spot with a part-timer. Next I collected and reviewed the past two years worth of expenditures to see exactly what our actuals were. However, I did not want to volunteer to be laid off to collect the layoff benefits.