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Frugal Challenge Saturday - Be creative with your money

by kellys on July 7th, 2007

Over the past 2 weeks, I have told you about 2 thrifty challenges I have overcome.  The first one was that I took out the coupons of the boxes of Kaboom that I bought before I bought them so that I could use the coupons inside.  It was the last day and I was going to use the coupons anyway.  The second one was that I drove all around town, enlisted the help of my friends (they already knew I was cheap and crazy), and saved a ton of money on the paint I wanted to use.   You could only buy 1 item at a time, with one coupon, on one day, at one store.  So I had to do some finagling.  This allowed me to save around $300. 

The Challenge for you today is to be crafty with your money.  I could have just said that I had to wait until I bought the Kaboom systems and then go back through the line but that would have wasted my time.  Have you seen the lines at Wal-Mart lately?  And I could have just dragged my DH to one store in 2 days and gotten a gallon of paint for each of us but I chose to enlist the help of friends.  I would do it for them and they chose to do it for me.  Thank you, by the way! 

So don’t be embarrassed to save money.  Cut coupons, take advantage of sales, and offer to help your friends when something crazy like a very restrictive sale goes on so that they can help you.  We have to come together in times of money savings.  If we aren’t protective of our hard earned money, I can promise you someone else will get it and be VERY protective of it.

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