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The latest Festival of Frugality (96th edition) is up at at Fire Finance.
I haven’t had a chance to choose my favorite entries yet, but there are over  three dozen money-saving ideas entered in this carnival!
Whether you’re on a tight budget or just looking to get ahead financially, you’ll want to check this festival out.

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Potatoes have always been one of my favorite budget stretchers. You can make so many recipes with them:

Mashed potatoes
French fried potatoes
Baked potatoes
Potato salad
Potato soup

A five pound bag of potatoes doesn’t cost much either. If the grocery budget is tight, potatoes could be the answer.
Early in our marriage one of our favorite meals was potato soup [...]

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Dana’s post last Friday on Finding Purpose took me back to my own decision to leave the corporate world over five years ago.
I remember how I agonized over that decision! I had truly come to believe what I had heard almost all of my adult life — “that it takes two incomes to get by [...]

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