Saving Money
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Saving Money in These Hard Times
Asked by K.H. from New York
on January 5, 2009
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H! As you all know these times have been really hard with our economy falling and people loosing their jobs. I am trying to help out my husband by finding a way to get...
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- Oprah recently did a show about saving money and the thriftiest family in America, they had great coupon tips and websites worth searching on Oprah's site.
- I have 3 children ranges 10,11,&16. I was so happy with the hand me downs from the other mother's in my church group when the kids were younger. I save a lot of mone...
- This is what I used to do. I have friends and family who live in other states, so I would ask them to mail me their coupons once every other week. I paid for postage. ...
College Saving Funds
Asked by M.T. from Minneapolis
on December 11, 2010
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Hi, not that just saving for retirement is hard enough, I realize that we need to start saving for my son's college (he's 14 months now). How do you save for your chi...
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- My husband and I both graduated college with a fair amount of debt and are working to pay that off, as well as pay our mortgage, car payment, and save for retirement. ...
- 529 is the way to go. Talk to a financial planner about the options out there. You can use any state's plan...whatever is doing best. AND there comes a point where...
- You don't need to pay a financial planner to learn about a 529 plan. It is set up like an IRA, so you can talk to your personal banker. I work in banking and we have...
Saving Money on Vacation
Asked by T.F. from Dayton
on May 19, 2010
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My husband and I have two daughters who are 16 and 11. We are planning on going to Myrtle Beach in July. We have a limited budget to work with. Does anybody have any ...
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- Do you already have a place to stay? Rather than staying at a place that is right on the beach, look for somewhere that is within walking distance to the beach, it ma...
- Book a hotel with a kichenette. They cost a little more but the money you save from going out to eat is worth it. You can get a cheap small cooler too and pack lunches...
- HI T., I haven't been to Myrtle in years but I have used priceline.com and gotten some really good prices on hotels, restaurants and other things as well. Go to the...
What Is Your Number One Way of Saving Money?
Asked by T.F. from San Francisco
on July 15, 2011
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Wondering what gets the most bang for your buck so to speak. I've found clipping coupons not to bring a lot of results for us. I don't use a lot of cleaning and pers...
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- we started saving money by taking $25 a paycheck and having it automatically deposited into savings. its the whoel "Pay your self first" theory. It needs to be direct ...
- - pack lunches every day for work - wait to buy "big things" until they are on sale - maintain our big purchases (cars, house, camera, t.v, etc) so they don't need t...
- I buy store brands. I'm careful about buying anything we might not eat, wear, or use. Clothing especially I really think about what will get a lot of wear and if I'm n...
Money Saving
Asked by M.F. from Denver
on July 20, 2010
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Hi Moms! So I have a quick question. I am a huge couponer and unfortunatly forget to keep it up every once in a while. What are your best tricks and do you think th...
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- I have a couple of favorite grocery stores. They have a rythm of putting things on sale. Every 3 weeks they put red meat on sale, the next week is produce, then chic...
- Marry a military guy and shop at the commissary! Ha ha! Aside from that.. I also notice that Albertsons (if you have one in your area) has great deals and quality fish...
- I use coupons to the hill, but I also own a distribution business of a newspaper so I have access to numerous copies of the coupon. I think the trick is to cut only t...
How Do You and Your Husband Handle Spending and Money?
Asked by J.G. from Washington DC
on March 8, 2010
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My husband and I are at a crossroads about our day-to-day finances. I am looking for ideas on how others budget, handle checkbooks, who decides how much is OK to spe...
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- my husband does the bills, and he is the breadwinner. he also likes to go grocery shopping (go figure), but i write the list (as specific as possible or he'll wander o...
- Sounds familiar! =) My husband used to control all of our finances, but I got so sick of asking if I could buy something and his answer would ALWAYS be, "No, we can't ...
- my husband never had anything to do with $$....he didnt know how much i spent on a anything or how much the bills were, not even the mortgage.....but he has expensive ...
Money Fight!!
Asked by J.M. from San Diego
on June 6, 2011
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Let me start off by saying my husband I rarely fight. We are best friends and communicate very well. The issue I am having is money. Until 3 years ago I always made...
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- Hi J., both my husband and I are impulse buyers and often buy things just because. We have our times when we try to be "good" and then next thing you know, we've gon...
- Tell him, with SOME of HIS money, to have his own, account, to spend it in his impulsive buying. BUT, it should not, take away from the REAL budget at hand, for th...
- We have NO CREDIT CARDS - we are a CASH ONLY family. We have "debit" mastercard/visas - but there is NO LINE OF CREDIT... I am the spender...I get $200 put into my ...
What Do You Do to save Money?
Asked by N.R. from Boston
on March 23, 2011
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I have seen a lot of folks talking about the economy and saving money. What do you guys do? I shop on my own web portal of course to earn cash back and commissions o...
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- Over the last year I have just grown sick and tired of scrimping and scrapping and barely getting by. So in an absolute about face my stance has completely changed. ...
- -Slickdeals.net - LOVE IT! -Amazon and Amazon mom - great deals! -Couponmom.com -Flylady.net -Mappingyourfuture.org - helps me budget -Use my bank card for points...
- I actually have never heard of the things you are talking about, but here's some things we do. -I stay home full time and though we have two automobiles, one is a...
Do You Have Any Money Saving Tips?
Asked by M.L. from Minneapolis
on June 5, 2008
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I work full-time and my DH stays home with our daughter who has Cystic Fibrosis. He works about 15-25 hours a week at night, but would like to work less, but we need ...
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- We also struggle to make ends meet each month. The one thing I found is a food program called fare for all. I will try to attach a link to there web page. It is fro...
- Hi M. The thing that helped us save money was to keep a tab of EVERTHING we spent. so you right it all down for a week and then go back and find ways to cut back, me ...
- Hmmm, its tough in this economony to save any money. I know I shop at 2nd hand stores alot, its fun and an adventure to me, that saves me alot of money! Esp the child ...
Saving Toys for Future Grandkids?
Asked by J.S. from Minneapolis
on January 6, 2011
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Hi Ladies, I have a poll here.
My MIL has saved TONS of my husband and his siblings from their childhood. Of course, my kids and their cousins love to play with th...
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- My grandkids are still playing with the toys I had as a child. If you have room then I say save whatever was fun to play with. Dolls didn't get save due to their bea...
- Definantly save 'favorite' books! My mom just dropped off over 50 books that I read when I was a kid- mostly series books like R.L. Stine and some others. I figure she...
- Well, my MIL saved EVERYTHING and all of my childhood toys/clothes/etc was destroyed in a fire. I plan on saving the toys and books that survive (lol) and some cl...
