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Carnival of Personal Finance #384 – Time for a Laugh Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Editors Picks: Big Cajun Man from THE Canadian Personal Finance Site shares 10 Phrases I have Used to Save Money. Really, we should all carry a cue card in a our wallet that we can just whip out and use anytime we have an opportunity to save money. People there only have what they use and need and you know what…they are happy!!

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How To Recover From A Home Fire

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However, one of the presents didn’t make it via FedEx in time and I was arranging with my neighbor to pick it up and hide it on my porch in a plastic trash bag. There were no firetrucks present yet, no sirens screaming their way towards the house. Anything you want to save or re-use will need to be carefully cleaned.

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Save Money – Develop Important Home Owner Skills

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

It’s pretty standard advice to new homeowners that they should have a lawyer present at closing, yet we didn’t. They wanted all new furniture for their home so they shopped around to find the store they wanted to use. If you pay full price, you are probably being taken.Americans historically have not haggled for.

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7 Tips for a Successful Yard Sale

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Our big ticket items were a hardly used 16" Disney Princess bike that is every girls'' dream except for our little one who is now too big for it and a gently used Handy Manny tool bench that we bought on Black Friday several years ago and still paid too much. Be Ready to Haggle. 7 Tips for a Successful Yard Sale. Hasta la vista!