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How to Create a Successful Monthly Budget: FREE Excel Spreadsheet Template!

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If you need help knowing how to create a monthly budget, my friend Lauren is guest posting today about her successful monthly budget, how she created it, and even included a free excel monthly budget template for an entire year. Feel free to download and use so your family can create a successful monthly budget too.When my husband and I did ...

10 Ways Sam’s Club Memberships Are Amazing for New Moms

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Discover amazing Sam's Club member benefits, specifically those for new moms! This post was sponsored by Sam's Club® , however, all opinions of it and its services are my own.My husband and I have been Sam's Club® members for a little over a year now. And we have been loving all of the savings that membership offers us! We shop at our local ...

Best Affordable Nursing Clothes All Under $40!

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Looking for some affordable nursing clothes? This my list of the best nursing clothes all under $40! I'm highlighting all sorts of cheap nursing tops styles, like nursing tanks, short sleeve and long-sleeve nursing tops, nursing dresses, nursing sweatshirts, and workplace nursing tops too. If you’re like me, when you’re pregnant, you don’t like ...

How to Choose the Right Credit Monitoring for Your Family

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Since the September 2017 data breach that occurred at Equifax, I have had it on my mind that my entire family needed to have some sort of monitoring or freezing of credit to help protect us against the malicious and false use of our identities.Prior to this moment in time, I must admit that I had little knowledge about the services that existed ...

How to Know Which Debt to Pay Off First

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As a former hedge fund analyst and finance major, turned SAHM and blogger, I write a regular Family Financial Savvy series because I believe there is power and freedom in being financially literate… and sadly, it is a skill too many families lack. The most common issue families come to me with is wanting to pay down debt. This is a great financial ...

6 Quick and Easy Ways to Save $5 or More Every Week

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Want to know how to save money quickly and easily? Keep reading for six easy ideas on how to save an extra $5 a week.Saving $5 a week may not seem like a lot of money but $5 can add up quickly. Did you know that if you invested that $5, in twenty years you could amass over $69,000?! Craziness, I know, but it's true. There really is power in ...

How to Maximize Savings During Black Friday and Cyber Monday

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If you're shopping on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, then you need to download these Black Friday apps and use the following Cyber Monday websites so you can save even more!I absolutely love the amazing deals you can get on all sorts of stuff during Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales because I love saving money! I don't know anyone who doesn't ...

What to Do When Your Landlord Doesn’t Refund Your Deposit

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A few months ago, I posted a special article for all you renting novices out there about how to get your security deposit back in full.So, what happens if you feel you’ve followed all those steps, and your Landlord still stiffs you?As long as you have performed your obligations and upheld your part of the lease contract, you have ...

7 Steps to Get Your Security Deposit Back in FULL

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Want to know how to get security deposit back on your apartment? Then you'll love these tips on how to get a full refund of your rental security deposit! Whether or not you paid a small or large security deposit to rent the place you call ‘home’, nothing feels more like a sucker-punch to a renter than when your landlord keeps your deposit after ...

The Easiest and Best Way to Save Money for Christmas All Year Long

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Even though Christmas comes but once time a year, it's a big expense. That's why I'm excited to share what I think is the best way to save for Christmas in partnership with Sears Mastercard. I used to really not like Christmas, but it's grown on me a lot since having my own children. And, like my husband, I want to make it magical for our kids. ...

The Truth About Paying Kids for Doing Chores

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This is a sponsored post. All opinions on should kids get paid to do chores and otherwise are my own.The other day we went to the grocery store and my 6-year-old daughter Alison brought her purse with her. As I'm loading up the vehicle to go home, she pulled out a $1 bill and offered it to me, to help pay for the groceries.While the ...

How to Limit Christmas Gifts to 3 or 4 Without Being a Scrooge

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This post on limiting Christmas gifts is sponsored by Carter's; however, all thoughts and opinions expressed are my own. I can't imagine Christmas morning without gifts. It's like having a birthday without a cake or people singing Happy Birthday to you at least once. It just would not be the same. At all. No matter how tight money was when I ...