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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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For ideas, read: 5 Make-Ahead Breakfast Ideas. 5 – Brown bag your lunch. There was a time (pre-pandemic) that I ate lunch out almost every day with friends. It was an escape from the office, but it was eating up my budget…see what I did there! An easy lunch idea in one word: leftovers!

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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Consider setting the money aside in a savings account that isn’t immediately accessible and doesn’t have an ATM attached to it, to avoid any impulsive non-emergency spending. We use an online account like, Capital One 360 (my referral link). You never know when you will need this money. Dinner time is stressful.

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10 Smart Ways to Become Debt Free

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When you have tracked, analyzed, and cut your budget to bare bones, there is only one other way to find extra money to put towards debt and that is to make more money. Acadia’s advice is to be creative and think about your talents and gifts and how you could use them to make extra money.

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