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4 Tips For Combining Finances And Budgeting In Marriage

4 Tips For Combining Finances And Budgeting In Marriage

Getting married and combining your lives is a really exciting time! Moving in together, making decisions together, and sharing your day to day is just as dreamy as it sounds, until you start actually living it. Don’t get me wrong I love my husband to the moon and back but love doesn’t prepare you for change or make it any easier. You quickly learn things about your significant other that you…

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Three Tips For Finding A Second Income Stream

Three Tips For Finding A Second Income Stream

  If you have a goal of building your savings or being debt free then you’ve probably done the math with your current job and figured out how long it will take you to get there. You’ve probably realized it will take awhile, as most big goals do. I’ve been there too and no, it’s not the most inspiring thing to see. But, there are ways to speed the process up and reach your financial goals quicker!…

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How To Stay Motivated With Your Financial Goals

How To Stay Motivated With Your Financial Goals

A couple weeks ago I sent out an email asking you guys what other blog posts you would want me to write about. This topic was one of the most asked for posts! Which, is completely fine by me because I can totally relate! I think we all know the feeling of starting out on a new goal. You’re excited, hopeful and ready to work your butt off to get there! Much like running a marathon you start out…

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Three Mindset Changes For Minimal Spending

Three Mindset Changes For Minimal Spending

If you haven’t read my post What I Learned From A Year Of Minimal Shopping I talk about just what the title says. I went a year without spending any real money on shopping. I didn’t set out to do it, it just kind of unfolded into over a year, but I learned some things that I share with you in that post. However after sharing that post I realized I had more to say, specifically more to tell you…

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Back To Basics: How To Cut Back On The Necessities

Back To Basics: How To Cut Back On The Necessities

As a culture we tend to want more. More time. More money. More things. We dream up the perfect life where we wouldn’t have to wait around for anything and we could have as much of whatever as we wanted. The problem with that way of thinking is that when all you want is more, you can never be fully satisfied. Once you reach that “more” you wanted, you just want more of something else, and so on…

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What I Learned From A Year Of Minimal Shopping

What I Learned From A Year Of Minimal Shopping

This time last year my husband had just left a job that had been paying him prevailing wage. Our budget was already smaller than it really needed to be because we were still saving for a house, but once that income was gone we decided to minimize our spending even more. The main thing we did was cut out our “shopping budgets” which was essentially $25 a month we both were allowed to spend however…

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Five Ways We Keep A $200 Grocery Budget

Five Ways We Keep A $200 Grocery Budget

One of the hardest expenses for people (and us) to budget is food. It is so easy to blow through money on food because you literally just eat it away. Then two hours later you are hungry again and there is no sign there was ever food bought in the first place. From groceries, to going out to eat, to convenient snacks or coffee shops we spend so much money stuffing our faces and half the time we…

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3 Ways Minimal Spending Helps You Be Generous

3 Ways Minimal Spending Helps You Be Generous

Have you ever heard about a friend going through a hard time and wished you could help? Have you ever heard of someone’s car trouble and wished you could pay it for them? But then you look at your own finances and you think you can’t really afford it? I’m going to let you in on a little secret! You have the money, it’s just going other places. (more…)

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