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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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Related Reading: How to Save Money on Groceries. And when dining out, at least follow these 15 Smart Tips to Save Money When Eating Out. Put the money in your emergency fund instead. If you have a big financial goal, think about how much you pay someone to do something that you are capable of doing yourself.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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Put the money saved into your emergency fund. Dinner time is stressful. But when you’re trying to save money, cut out this costly expense. This time-saving technique will save you money and your sanity. Put the money in your emergency fund instead. Try freezer cooking.

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Find out How Brian & His Wife Paid off $109,000 in Credit Card Debt

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I work full time in IT and my wife works part time in retail. We have involved our children in our money discussion once we decided to become debt free. What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. As long as we can save for it we enjoy it.

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Find out how Jessica & Her Husband Paid off $175,000 of Debt

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Along our part-time business my husband is a senior web designer for Ramsey Solutions aka Dave Ramsey. We live a pretty busy lives and when given free weekends at home we love spending time at home on our little farm. This ultimately is what put us on the fast track for paying off debt in such a quick amount of time.

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Find out How Acadia & Her Husband Paid off $97,000 in Student Loans

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My husband works as an architect and I teach art part time at my son’s school. We began to realize that each item we own costs us something, either our time to maintain it or our money. What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt.

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

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How did you get interested in saving money? I learned to save money by watching my parents. (I I still remember saving my change as a kid so I could “shop” for books at yard sales.) I still remember saving my change as a kid so I could “shop” for books at yard sales.) He’s a cheap date – but then, so am I.

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Find out How Drew & Farrah Paid off $200k of debt, including their HOME

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Drew works full time for Department of Defense. Farrah works part time for Department of Defense. What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. What are your financial goals now? We are from Cincinnati, OH. We have a family of 4.

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