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How to Save Money From Salary Without Sacrificing Your Lifestyle

Penny Pinchin' Mom

Should you just pretend that you don’t have savings and increase your debt ? Things like taxes and the fact that groceries cost about 9% more now than they did last year. Your bills are going to be there, and you can’t simply not save money because you have to pay bills.

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears were shed here, but we both agree that having no mortgage gave us a serious leg up on our retirement savings and other financial goals. My biggest financial regret is the amount of money we spent on restaurant meals from the time we were married and both working full time to when we had kids.

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How Krystal and Josh paid off $80k in 4 years!

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and using all of our extra funds, like bonuses from work and tax returns, we were able to pay everything off in 4 years! Use all the food you have, and freeze it if you know you won’t use it up before it expires. friends or family to save on housing costs, and we put a little bit from. each check into a savings account.

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