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Save Money With DIY Home Repairs

Saving Cents With Sense

Other home proactive home maintenance tasks include draining your water heater once a year, cleaning the clothes dryer vent, cleaning your gutters and checking the batteries in smoke alarms and carbon dioxide detectors. Keep a simple home maintenance log to record each time you replace these items to help you stay on track.

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Realistic Ways to Save Money Each Month

Saving Everyday

Read on for strategies we use that really work! From an early age, my Dad instilled in us the value of hard work and living within your means. I vividly remember him saving his change all year and having us kids roll it for vacation. Cancel everything you don’t use. For example, are you using that gym membership?

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Meet a Reader | Mbmom11, in the Midwest

The Frugal Girl

He is so talented at DIY. Home repairs, construction, electrical, auto repair, technology – he’ll try anything after suitable research of YouTube and other resources. I should have known he was special as he asked for a set of “Time-Life” home repair books when he was in college.