Penny Pinchin' Mom

MARCH 11, 2024

Put Away the Leftovers Another way to increase your savings quickly is to try as much as you can to save money from your designated weekly budget. Instead, put that leftover cash into your savings accounts. From $300 a week to the weeks where you have some of that leftover, find one week where you spend absolutely nothing.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Renting, not having super nice furniture or cars, having mismatched dishes and bedding. We also listed to The Dave Ramsey Show every day for daily motivation while we worked the baby steps. So we would cook at home and take leftovers for lunch the next day. We completely started over. We sold EVERYTHING! We used up what we had.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

At the time we were renting an office space in a strip mall, but when we discovered a foreclosure in our town that seemed like a great idea on paper, we jumped at the chance. The good news is that we’ve been able to cash flow these expenses, but the bad news is there wasn’t much additional leftover to apply towards our loan.

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JULY 9, 2015

Everyone had unique motivation for working towards debt freedom: Jackie and her husband were sick of the stress that goes along with money issues. She offered to do people’s taxes, or get their bookkeeping organized in exchange for a discount on her rent, or car repairs. That would keep you on budget! Stacy and her family stayed home.

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