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Four Easy Ways to Save on Basic Necessities

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Most restaurant-style meals are easy to prepare at home at a fraction of the cost, and you are able to control what ingredients are included. When cooking at home, try to reduce meat consumption to save money. Paying for prepared meals is convenient and tasty, but it’s also more expensive and usually less healthy.

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Keeping it Simple: Strategies for Financial Security

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Take personal finances, for example; too many people over-think their finances, with the result that it all seems too hard. We often seem to complicate things, don’t we? So we just give up on trying to control expenditure and saving. One of the simplest things you can do is to educate yourself about financial matters.

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Find out how Jessica paid off $56,000 of student loans, credit cards, and a car loan.

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I work in Finance/Accounting for a large corporation but I have also started a company called Every Single Dollar , which focuses on personal finance for single women. Stop eating out – it’s so much better for your wallet and your waistline to cook at home. How much debt did you pay off?