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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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Our emergency fund has saved us countless times and it will save us once again with the truck. He then advises paying off your non-mortgage debt before fully funding an emergency fund with 3 – 6 months worth of expenses. To kick start your emergency fund savings, take the next 31 days and challenge yourself to find $1000.

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The Prairie Eco-Thrifter Giveaway Extravaganza: 2nd Anniversary with an iPad 3 and over $200 Cash To Be Won Plus a Bonus Prize

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While many personal finance sites focus on things such as getting out of debt, saving for retirement, and investing, what really matters to me the most is how we can live healthy prosperous lives. The site has grown and changed so much and I owe it all to you, my readers.

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Sustainable Living Traits To Pass On To Your Children

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Participate in local food drives and donations and involve your kids in your actions. You can make it fun for you kids by running a household scavenger hunt in which you reward you children for finding household items to donate, such as clothes, toys, books, old appliances, and canned goods.

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Eight Things I Learned After Becoming a Millionaire

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My spouse and I were that young, poor couple, sloughing away at our day jobs and scrimping and saving for years to build wealth. You don’t have to contend with deciding which bill to pay or how to avoid a debt collector’s call or trying to keep the landlord off your back. Being thrifty stays an ingrained habit.

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8 Easy Ways to Reduce, Recycle, and Reuse

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We also save containers from items and reuse them for storage at a later time. For example, if we buy ice cream in a tub, I save the tub to freeze homemade stock at a later date. It is your way of going green and saving yourself money since these products will run more efficiently than what you currently have. Go thrifty.

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Japan Relief – How You Can Help

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Well, people talk in America about our National Debt quite often and how high it is. The way debt works is that to raise money for your own country, you sell treasury bills or bonds. This will send a $10 donation to the Red Cross relief efforts in Japan. You can also text JAPAN or QUAKE to 80888 and make an instant donation.

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

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I am talking about spring cleaning your finances and finding more ways you can save money. Little House presents Not Enough Saved For Retirement? Little House presents Not Enough Saved For Retirement? Who says that you have to retire in the same country that you saved for it in. Save Money this Spring: #2.