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Small Business Ideas For Teens
Just a few short months ago my kids discovered the beauty of starting a very small business. I couldn’t have been happier. Oh one of my daughters has been babysitting for years. But this summer the kids stumbled upon a petsitting business they didn’t even really set out to build. A friend of ours needed some cats watched for three days. So we volunteered. Then another friends needed petsitting and we said we could do it and then a couple more friends were heading away for a week and both of my girls decided they’d help out there too. So a small petsitting business was born from a need in…
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Appliance Shopping Adventures
ADVENTURES in appliance shopping: We are price matching our butts off over here appliance shopping. We need a new dishwasher and a new refrigerator. We really need a new laundry set too, but we are prioritizing the refrigerator and dishwasher for now because old dishwasher will die any day and currently makes weird noises sometimes. Also our fridge is old and small and doesn’t close right. So we are appliance shopping and we have been doing that on and off, for months. I think we’ve both had just about enough actually. Flipp App helps for some of that and then there’s good old fashioned leg work. Over the last few months,…
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Save Money with Cheap Flights at Christmas #Travel
Guest Post: Pick the right day to fly Busy airports, crazy-high fares, winter weather delays — are you sure you want to do this? The busiest (and most expensive) travel days of the year are around the holidays. Armed with our fare calendar chart (see below), you’ll save a lot of stress and small stocking of cash by picking the right days to fly. Rise and shine Don’t want to miss the carving of the turkey or the unwrapping of presents? Book the earliest flight you can. Sure, you’ve got to wake up early, but those first flights out are the least likely to be delayed, and airports are blessedly calm at…
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5 Things I Learned During The 21 Day Credit-Free Challenge #21DaysCreditFreeChallenge #SKExperts
Here I am three weeks after starting the Interac 21 Day Credit-Free Challenge and it is time to tell you whether I was successful or not with this adventure. It takes three weeks to change a habit. So that’s why I started this journey with my Interac Debit card and put my credit cards on ice. I shared my first two weeks here last month. Week One – Five Ways to Stay on Top of Debt can be read here. Week Two was Window Shopping. So how has it been overall? I work from home. I have a consulting business I love. But working from home requires a huge amount of discipline. It’s really…
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Window Shopping and Making Progress on My Interac 21 Day Credit-Free Challenge #21DaysCreditFree #ad
My week was a bit about the window-shopping. And let’s face it nobody likes window-shopping. But, more about that in a minute.. Last week I invited you to follow along with me on the Interac 21 Day Credit-Free Challenge journey to see what I have learned, and I figured it might help you save a few dollars too. This week I tried to pay close attention to my spending, so that I could accurately help some of you to succeed at saving money this month too. Itís hard to save money when you are also shopping for some really big-ticket items, like I am. My family is currently in the…
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Five Ways to Stay on Top of Debt
This post is brought to you by Interac Association and SheKnows Media. When’s the last time you used your credit card? Yesterday? The day before that? While credit cards make life easier, they also make it easier to accumulate debt. Debt is the enemy of financially savvy Moms and Dads. With news that Canada is now in an official recession your personal household debt is now more than ever something you really need to pay attention to. Here are a few ideas for ways to help stay on top of debt this season. Five Simple Ways to Stay on Top of Debt 1. Cancel the credit cards. This is going to be hard,…
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Back to School with Mabel’s Labels Stylish Scholar’s Combo #BTS #Giveaway
This is a back to school pun. What gets misplaced, but never lost? Easy peasy. Anything boasting a smart Mabel’s Labels Stylish Scholars Combo. My kids misplace stuff all year long. But they rarely lose it. Why is that? We slap Mabel’s Labels on pretty much everything important. They worked beautifully for camp when we had the camp combo and they work every bit as well for the remainder of the year. We use ours for all the sports equipment and extracurriculars. The other day we started back to school shopping which means it was also time to pull out the Mabel’s Labels Stylish Scholars Combo and start placing the skinny…
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Sell Your Old Clothing, Toys or Furniture Easily – Varage Sale Comes to London #LDNONT #VarageSale
Hold up Facebook sales groups. Here comes Varage Sale now in London, Ontario too. Varage Sale takes the headache out of garage sales and helps you to sell the little extras that are cluttering up your home. I have been eyeing this up for several weeks as I watched Varage launch in communities around the GTA. I even downloaded the Varage Sale app before they launched in London. I am a bit of an app geek and love to see what new apps are doing and how they compare to other tools. I watched Varage Sale in Ottawa and in the GTA and I even messaged the app to say…
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Organize Your Wallet With UGO Wallet $20 Offer #UGOWalletStart
If you are at all like me your wallet is weighed down by more rewards cards than you can count. It seems every store you visit these days has a rewards card. In fact lately they seem more prevalent than ever. Just today I was hunting for my library card and barely could find it buried beneath rewards cards. So when I heard about UGO Wallet app I had to give it a try. UGO wallet app is free. You can download it and store all your rewards cards on UGO Wallet app. And more importantly right now for a limited time when you sign up, download the app and…
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Summer Weekend Flash Giveaway
This summer is shaping up to be a very busy one. So far I have had several huge giveaways here that each started around Father’s Day. So happy to share one more Flash Giveaway! My other giveaways are live here: Yak Communications $200 Visa Card Plus $200 Yak Credit!! Posterjack ARV $50 Win a Jord Watch $139 ARV [tweetthis]Still time to win a new Jord Watch!! https://www.thriftymommastips.com/win-a-jordwatch-for-someone-special-arv-139-giveaway/[/tweetthis] For THREE Days ONLY we are offering this Flash Giveaway! One lucky reader will receive $50 USD Paypal Cash or Amazon Gift Card!! Enter Now! [tweetthis]Time for a summer weekend flash giveaway! Enter now![/tweetthis] It is easy peasy to enter! Just use the form…