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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

Family Balance Sheet

Now that we’ve paid off six figures of non-mortgage debt , we are working on saving 6 months’ expenses and maybe even more. Consider setting the money aside in a savings account that isn’t immediately accessible and doesn’t have an ATM attached to it This will help to avoid any impulsive non-emergency spending.

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

I love to read (Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Linda Castillo, Paul Doiron and C.J. Now I wish those dollars had gone into our savings accounts. I enjoy good food even though I don’t like to cook it – maybe especially because I don’t like to cook it. The food you will actually eat is what is worth buying!

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #231

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

It’s modeled much like Michael Pollans Food Rules with many one-page rules that give short but useful tidbits of information. Open a savings account and put away 10 percent as a minimum.

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