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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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2 – Reduce your grocery spending without sacrificing quality. Do you know how much you spend on groceries each month? Groceries is the easiest budget category to overspend. It’s also very easy to reduce your grocery spending just by planning your meals. Related Reading: How to Save Money on Groceries.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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2 – Reduce your grocery spending without sacrificing quality. Can you answer this question, how much do you spend on groceries each month? The easiest way to reduce your grocery spending is to plan your meals. 4 – Skip the AM drive thru and eat breakfast at home. 15 – Find a part-time job.

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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. talked about what went out that day, what was coming up, or if something. grocery money we took out cash every pay day. because we aren’t eating out. 3 – Make time for fun! We knew it would take us years to get out of debt!

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How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt

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However, it produces a small part-time income from side-bar ads and affiliate commissions. Groceries. I have written this many times, “the grocery budget is the easiest budget category to get out of control and the easiest budget category to control.” We LOVE to go out to dinner!

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Interview with a Self-Made Millionaire

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But, I can’t believe people are making big bucks telling other people how to control their spendthrift ways, or sharing how to shave a few cents off a grocery bill. Eating out or going to a movie were once a year events. Instead of spending his birthday check for $10, my husband put it in savings – every single time.

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10 Smart Ways to Become Debt Free

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Brian’s wife took on a part-time job to increase their income to throw at their debt. When her grocery envelop was empty, it was empty until pay day. They Managed their Grocery Spending. I have always stressed that groceries is one of the easiest budget categories to reduce. Eating out daily will add up.

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Our 2017 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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We dramatically reduced our spending by cutting our cable TV and landline , shopping thrifty, eating out less often , and lowering our grocery bill. We also worked diligently to nurture our small business (our bread and butter) while my husband picked up a part-time job as a swim coach, one of his passions.

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