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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With an expensive California mortgage, car payments and student loans, the emergency fund she and her husband, Sylvester, had dutifully built quickly depleted. Then, in 2019, she lost her job.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With an expensive California mortgage, car payments and student loans, the emergency fund she and her husband, Sylvester, had dutifully built quickly depleted. Then, in 2019, she lost her job.

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8 Tips to Help You Save Money When Moving

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Moving can also be expensive, especially if you hire movers to do some of the work. Although moving expenses can add up quickly, the total cost of your move will vary based on the amount you need to transport, the distance you’re going and if you use a moving company, among other factors. Spend time decluttering.

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Looking to Cut Costs? These Are 5 of the Best Items to Buy Used

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Check your local Facebook Marketplace for hand weights or rubber plates. Classic glassware and fine china are home decor items that seem ubiquitous in thrift stores and antique shops, but can be extremely expensive to purchase new. Spend time researching used fitness stores in your area, and keep an eye out for sales on older models.

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How to Name Your Business

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It’s far less expensive to name a company with a descriptive title and tagline,” Isen says. When brainstorming for original, web-hip names, consider repurposed real words (Amazon), misspelled words (Flickr, Digg), compounds (Facebook), blends (Pinterest), short phrases (MySpace), suffixes or prefixes (Mashable) or made-up words (Meebo).

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Chance the Rapper on Achieving Goals as an Independent Artist & Paying It Forward

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If you like it, send me a message on Facebook or Twitter, and if you don’t like it, send me a message on Facebook or Twitter. That’s usually a record label expense. So, I made sure that I gave the mixtapes away for free. I would start with a conversation and say, ‘Please listen to it. But let me know what you think about it.’

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Tips To Keep Your Millennial Employees Committed and Engaged

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Expensing these activities is an investment that will increase your employees’ dedication to work and ability to work well with one another. Large tech companies — like Google, Facebook and Amazon — provide workspaces for their employees that are well-designed, include specialty accommodations, and encourage creative engagement.

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