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The Stuff-itus Cure

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When you are frugal, you become very adept at collecting things at little or no cost. Initially the thought of gaining treasure is thrilling, but over time as your little pile of booty blossoms into multiple mountains, rooms and storage containers filled to overflowing, you’ll reach the point of Stuff-itus.

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Avoiding Dinner Time Disruptions

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The family dinner hour is going the way of the dinosaur and Ward & June Cleaver. Is eating together an old-fashioned, outdated notion incompatible with today’s faster-paced, non-relational lifestyle? Is its demise inevitable, or is there something we can do about it?

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Don't "Checkout" at the Check-out

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You’ve clipped coupons, scoured the ads, planned a menu and even written a shopping list. The groceries are now loaded in your cart and you’re standing in the checkout line ready to see your hard work pay off with great savings. Whew, you congratulate yourself — a job well done, it’s time to relax and let the checker and bagger take over. No, don’t do it — danger lurks ahead. It’s time for you to be totally alert — eyes and ears wide open.

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15 Ways to Wreck Your Food Budget

Shop, smart

Learning to manage your grocery expenses is one of the fastest ways to start healing your family budget. Whether it’s due to being uneducated, too busy or just not caring, we see so many families practicing shopping habits that drive their food costs through the roof. Take this test and see if you are one of the violators:

Put a check mark next to any statement that describes something you’ve done in the past six months:

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Organization: Do The Kitchen Dance

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Organizing your kitchen is much like choreographing a dance. All the elements must work in perfect accord to create a seemingly effortless, elegant and efficient performance.

If you have the wrong tools, or they’re in the wrong places, your kitchen dance will be stuttering and herky-jerky— not at all pleasant. It’s taken us years to get the right things in the right places.

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Stock Your Pantry and Make a Killing

Stock Your Pantry and Make a Killing - Cereal

In May 2003 an NBC TV reporter, Brahm Resnik, stood in our pantry gazing at the floor-to-ceiling shelves (8 feet tall x 9 feet wide). We could tell he was trying to compose a logical question. Finally he blurted out, “You say you spend $350 per month to feed your family of seven, but how much did it cost to stock these pantry shelves?” We knew he didn’t understand our philosophy of setting aside a specific amount of money each month for groceries and then using that money to not only purchase our groceries but also to stock up on special sales.

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Family, Incorporated

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If you have observed the business world for even a little while, you’ve seen how businesspeople  structure their operations to guarantee success. They have business plans, projected budgets, quarterly reports, annual reports, five-year plans, boards of directors, employee committees, project meetings and most importantly, profits. Some of us may cringe at the structure required to manage a successful business, but without these checks and balances, most businesses would fall into disarray and eventually close their doors.

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Guide To Great Garage Sales

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It’s summertime and every weekend you’ll see the signs—“Huge Garage Sale,” “Monster Yard Sale,” “Moving Sale” or simply just “SALE” scrawled across neon-colored poster board. More than 60 million of us shop at garage sales, spending close to $1 billion each year. We’ve hosted dozens of garage sales—single-family, multiple-family and huge fund-raiser sales. Each time, we’ve fine-tuned our strategies and improved our execution. You can make money, but without careful planning and preparation, you’ll spend more than you’d like to pay physically, emotionally and financially.

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Freeze It - Store It - Enjoy It!!

What food can you freeze?

One of our greatest tools for saving on groceries is our freezer. Over the years, as our family has grown, so has the size of our freezer. We started with a used 9-cubic-foot chest freezer, then five years later purchased a used 17-cubic-foot upright. Now we have a 27-cubic-foot chest freezer that we purchased at a steep discount when our local Montgomery Wards went out of business.

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Lost and Found - Keep What You Have

Lost and Found - Keep What You Have

Do you ever get that feeling as you’re leaving someplace that you’re forgetting something? One uncalculated family expense is the cost of losing things. How much does your family lose each year? Is it in the tens, hundreds or thousands of dollars?

 

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