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10 Ideas to Find Cash for Christmas

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The Christmas season is upon us. 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. Can you teach piano lessons?

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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. Our goal is to NOT put our Christmas purchases on a credit card. Consider tutoring.

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How to Graduate College Without Being Broke

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

It’s well within a college student’s ability to start saving money while they’re still getting a degree, and to graduate with a firm grasp on their finances and an idea of how to succeed going forward. First things first: Be smart about credit. It’s not for food, bills, movies, dates, anything.

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7 Steps To Homelessness And What To Do If You Get There

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Use Up Existing Resources. Although friends tried to help by offering part time employment, she was unable to keep a paying job. She charged up credit cards to buy food and clothing. She ignored collectors and now the card company is suing. Only take what you will actually use now.

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How Krystal and Josh paid off $80k in 4 years!

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works in outbound sales, and I teach part-time. It took us four years, but we paid off over $80,000 of debt! medical bills, a small credit card, both of our cars, and student loans. burden for us at first were the medical bills. out and it gave us the momentum we needed to focus on all of our other.

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Interview with a Self-Made Millionaire

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

For so long, we plodded along with next to nothing while our neighbors were running up their charge cards and using home equity loans to take vacations. We shopped at garage sales, turned down the heat, combined errands to use less gas, didn’t buy a lot of prepared food, cooked at home and the like. Peggy: Oh yes!

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10 Smart Ways to Become Debt Free

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Acadia’s advice is to be creative and think about your talents and gifts and how you could use them to make extra money. Brian’s wife took on a part-time job to increase their income to throw at their debt. Acadia’s husband used his handy skills to fix up their home that they eventually sold for a profit.

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