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5 Ways to Make Travel with Your Family More Affordable

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We thought eating in restaurants was a main attraction of travel because you get to try local foods. Even when eating out on the cheap, we were still spending hundreds of dollars on food. Then, about four years ago, I found out that I as well as two of our children have food intolerances including some biggies, like dairy and gluten.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

Family Balance Sheet

When we’re crazy busy and the family is demanding that they be fed, I always have the ingredients for spaghetti on hand. Now go through the list and really ask yourself if you use or need all of it. If you’re not using it, cancel it today and redirect that monthly money into your emergency savings.

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7 Steps To Homelessness And What To Do If You Get There

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

For 12 years she worked as an assistant to research scientists – continuing to live with her parents. Use Up Existing Resources. She couldn’t stretch the inheritance, no matter how thrifty she was, to last more than 15 years. She charged up credit cards to buy food and clothing. Eventually the inheritance ran out.

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Meet a Reader | Mbmom11, in the Midwest

The Frugal Girl

This was a time I had been thinking about not teaching anymore and staying home, so I was looking for new ideas to be thrifty. Home repairs, construction, electrical, auto repair, technology – he’ll try anything after suitable research of YouTube and other resources. Highly rated, easy to use, and it sits gathering dust.

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(Exercising) The Art of Frugality

Frugal Luxuries

It is the careful use of goods and resources. Each of us possesses the ability to exercise it. In fact, it was Terri's long-standing "Frugal Fridays", "Thrifty Thursday" and " Frugal Week " posts that have inspired me to create my own ongoing accountability list by way of this and future posts celebrating the Art of Frugality. (Of

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