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The savings buckets - Blunt Money

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I’ve always known that saving money was important. Actually implementing a savings plan and learning to stick to it has taken some time though.
Part of the problem was that I had a narrow view of what savings meant.…

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Reducing consumption - Blunt Money

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A strange thing has been happening lately when I’ve gotten fast food: I’ve started really paying attention to what they give me. Now my fast food is mostly limited to a chicken sandwich at Chick-Fil-A, so I’ll…

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The low-gift Christmas

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Last year, we cut back dramatically on our Christmas gift-giving and receiving. I never really wrote about how that went, so I thought now might be a good time to do so.
The whole thing started with my husband.…

Closing my business

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I’ve been struggling over the past year or so with whether or not to close a business that I have. Now it’s decision time.
The business hasn’t been making much money, mainly because I’ve had a terrible time…

Change your definition of normal

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Some of the dictionary definitions of normal are “conforming to the standard or the common type”, “usual” and “the average or mean”.
Another way of putting it is that normal is just whatever most people…