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My Frugal Life - You Don't Need a Financial Windfall to Start Saving Money

My health has been getting worse for years. Not only have we lost my income, but the medical bills are through the ceiling. We spent everything that we had saved for our retirement, and were flat broke. To my husband's credit, he has never held it against me. He has stood by me through thick and thin.

I asked the Lord if He would support us if I put everything "extra" into savings. That would be rebates, pennies found on the street, aluminum cans, gifts, whatever. It turns out that there are a hundred ways to save a few cents or a few dollars.

For whatever reason, and I'll bet you know what I think, the money just started adding up. I exhibited homemade things in the fair, used coupons, cooked from my husband's garden, and did whatever I could to scrape up a dollar.

By the end of the year, we had accumulated $2,000. Since our normal annual income is around $9,000, that was a significant amount.

Of course, at the end of the year I fell and shattered my ankle, and that used up most of the savings. But I'm doing it again, and we're up to $1300 already this year.

To me, this just shows how easy it is to waste money. In the past, we had not had money left over. That year didn't have any miracle windfalls in it. We just didn't spend it when it came in.

I'm working on my fair projects today!

Coreen from Rupert, ID

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