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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

Family Balance Sheet

The following list of 25 ideas is broken into two larger categories: ways to reduce your spending and ways to earn extra money. Recently I tried something completely new to me and earned $1000 in less than 3 months by donating plasma–see the details in #14. Put the money saved into your emergency fund.

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Meet a Reader | Kim from Iowa

The Frugal Girl

What’s the “why” behind your money-saving efforts? We save aggressively for retirement even though my husband will have a pension that he will be eligible for in about 6 years. International travel when I was in high school really shaped the course of my life and I wanted to share that with my boys.

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Meet a Reader | Biker Liz

The Frugal Girl

What’s the “why” behind your money-saving efforts? Making good use of the resources I have – not only money, but my health, physical abilities, skills, etc. Being married to someone who is a natural saver has saved me the most money. I love winter – trees on my favorite trail 4.

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Totally Money Blog Carnival #18 – 6 Ways to Save Money Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In fact, my husband and I just revamped our budget so that we can donate to charities even more each month. Now on to the rest… Save Money this Spring: #1. If you have been to the grocery store anytime over the course of past few months then you have definitely seen how food prices have escalated.

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Meet Stacy. She and her husband paid off $20,000 in 8 Months.

Family Balance Sheet

She shares delicious recipes, money saving tips and frugal living posts at her blog, Stacy Makes Cents. We did follow Dave Ramsey’s plan – we’re still following it as we save for the future. We took his Financial Peace course once before we were married and twice afterwards…and now Barry teaches it.

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