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How We Frugal-ed in September 2022

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I’m always looking for ways to save my family money to help us get through current higher food and gas prices and achieve our big financial goals. At one time I planted quite a bit, but weeds overtook my garden and turned my favorite hobby into a stressful mess. The black container is from Thai takeout food.

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Meet Carrie. She Paid Off $14,000 in Debt in 14 Months.

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What are your hobbies? After nearly a decade of working my way up the career ladder, I quit my small business accounting job to start my blog, Careful Cents. My husband is a personal chef, so he travels a lot for work and moves around the country to learn new styles of cooking. Who initiated the debt free goal?

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7 Clever Ways Moms Used to Save Money

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“It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.” This can ultimately lead to substantial savings that can go toward your financial goal and keep you from being wasteful. Here’s how it works for me.

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Meet Amanda & Daniel. They Paid Off $68,000 in Debt in 8 Months.

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What are your hobbies? We have always loved to travel and do missions work for our church. Daniel can work anywhere there is an internet connection and the kids can homeschool anywhere, but we didn’t have the money to buy the plane tickets or book AirBnB apartments. We ate at home a lot and watched our food budget carefully.

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Meet Tracy, a Single Mom Who Paid Off $41,587 | Debt Free Stories

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What are your hobbies? I just moved to the more rural area to enjoy time gardening and cooking with real foods. I will be working one back in after the house project. The company I had worked at for 12 years when I started my journey in January 2013, announced it would be making significant job cuts summer 2013.

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Meet Krista & Jon Who Paid Off $36,000 | Debt Free Stories

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What are your hobbies? We’ll live in a dorm (which fits us perfectly but we know sounds terrible to others) in our own apartment while I (Krista) work in student development providing mentoring/counseling/student discipline to the 150 women in the dorm and Jon will work right across the street as the assistant director of admissions.

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Find out how Jessica paid off $56,000 of student loans, credit cards, and a car loan.

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What are your hobbies? I work in Finance/Accounting for a large corporation but I have also started a company called Every Single Dollar , which focuses on personal finance for single women. And I cut back on lifestyle – cooking food at home, taking the bus to work vs driving and paying for parking, etc.