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    Category: Frugal Living

    Sizzling Summer Fun: Low-Cost Entertainment Ideas for Friends and Family

    When summer arrives, it’s the perfect time to make lasting memories with friends and family. While the idea of summer fun may conjure up images…

    Dr. Maria James July 17, 2023
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    The What and Why of the Gender Wealth Gap

    What is the Gender Wealth Gap? The racial wage gap has been a major topic of discussion regarding the economic difficulties that women face in…

    Dr. Maria James June 19, 2023
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    3 Money Moves to Make Right Now for Financial Stability

    There has been a lot of discussion in general and among finance experts about the best money moves to make right now. We are reflecting…

    Dr. Maria James July 24, 2020
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    Money Mindset Strongly Affects Your Financial Success

    Sometimes we don’t even realize that it’s governing our actions and determining our financial success.   Your money mindset is your ideology about money: how…

    Dr. Maria James May 7, 2020
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    Savings Goals Formulas

    Saving money is a common goal or financial desire. We all have something or more likely multiple things that we want to save up to…

    Dr. Maria James March 2, 2020
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    Sinking Funds and Why I Kind of Don’t like Them

    Saving money is important. Usually, any method that gets people to save more money I am for it. However, I don’t like these sinking funds.…

    Dr. Maria James February 24, 2020
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    7 Key Ways to Save Money and a $5 Saving Challenge for Real Results

    We all know we need to save money. However, it can be difficult to stay motivated and actually save money. Many of us end up…

    Dr. Maria James August 17, 2019
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    How to Budget Your Holiday Spending and Keep Your Goals

    I know. I know. We still have five months until the end of the year. However, now is the time to craft your plan to…

    Dr. Maria James August 8, 2019
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    How a Government Shutdown Will Affect Your Money

    Well, they’re speculating another government shutdown may happen. If the government can’t agree on the budget before the current budget is up then a shutdown…

    Dr. Maria James September 13, 2018
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    POM046: The ABCDs of Debt Elimination with Simone Dennis

    In this episode, Simone Dennis walked us through tips and techniques to eliminate debt. We discussed: that ABCD technique of debt elimination what lifestyle inflation actually…

    Dr. Maria James July 23, 2018
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