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Friday Features for frugal folks! How to be Frugal Even When You’re Not [Video] – Beat The Bush on YouTube Simple frugal living habits …

The stock market performs like a rollercoaster… nobody knows when it’s going to go down. What goes up must come down. Just focus on your strategy and stick to it for the long term.

It’s never too late to reinvent yourself and start over.

This incident reminded me that when it comes to a job, no one cares about your qualifications or dedication to the organization. There are rules and procedures to be adhered to, and if you step outside of those, your employer holds the power to end your livelihood in a matter of days—or less.

How do you recover from a month of mess ups? If you mess up… you can say, “this is the point where I stop and I’m going to reset.”

We at least have 1, 5, and 10 minutes every day to better our financial health. This is my routine.

Here’s the problem… We all have limited time available to pursue these important aspects of life. We’re stretched thin trying to do it all. In order to truly be successful we have to 1) Make priorities and 2) Figure out how to manage them.

It’s so easy when it comes to spending just to swipe or tap or whatever and then completely forget what we just did.

After doing some research on the housing market and what it actually takes to own a home, we started to realize that this might not be the best place for us to stash our cash.

I still want to enjoy my life; how do you budget for travel while tackling debt?

As a fellow social justice warrior, I do love my career in the non-profit sector. Sure, I don’t make a lot but I love helping others. I believe it’s my life’s mission to help youth who have or have had similar circumstances that I did growing up. As corny as that sounds, it’s what I fully believed and still do to this day. I’m happy at my day job, and unlike so many others. I don’t actually hate Mondays.

I realized maybe if I got my finances in order, I could really start pursuing a life that I was happy to live.

How exactly are you supposed to quantify your worth in a way that’s useful – especially in negotiations?