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A Veteran of the Digital Nomad Community Offers Her Best Tips for the Location-Independent Lifestyle

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Make a budget and do your best to stick to it. What nomad communities or groups would you suggest if someone is just starting this lifestyle? If you’d rather go it alone, there are some great Slack and Facebook groups designed to facilitate supporting this lifestyle. What are your top three financial tips for digital nomads?

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A Single Mother Struggling to Budget Weighs the Balance Between Just Surviving and Really Living

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So, I had to learn to stick to my budget , which wasn’t easy, especially for someone who’d had to repeat a year of high school math. How did I rationalize spending money that put me slightly over budget? But when I do, I no longer get upset that I went off budget. It was almost impossible on my own.

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The Making a Difference Foundation Ensures People Without Housing Aren’t Without Good Meals

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The Making a Difference Foundation (which encompasses Eloise’s Cooking Pot Food Bank), is one of five nonprofit organizations SUCCESS magazine is spotlighting during the week of Giving Tuesday. Aside from providing quality food to those in need, they offer classes on how to shop for and prepare healthy and delicious food on a budget.

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3 Ways to Avoid Overspending During the Holidays

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We’d spend the majority of the year being diligent budgeters and ignoring our desires to take lavish vacations, spend heavily on meals or buy the newest gadget. The term lifestyle inflation or lifestyle creep is used whenever spending gradually rises over time. And then November would roll around. Photo by @chloeboulos/Twenty20.

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Reading List: 3 New Books to Explore Purpose, Culture and Personalized Financial Plans

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Also known as “The Budget Mom,” Kumiko Love helps women across the globe take charge of their finances. My Money My Way offers unique strategies that can help anyone create a budget that works for them. . This article originally appeared in the January/February 2022 Issue of SUCCESS magazine. By Kumiko Love.

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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. It’s called ‘lifestyle creep’ when you’re done with school so you think you have more money and can afford more things,” Akpan says. So, I preach about budgeting all the time.”.

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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. It’s called ‘lifestyle creep’ when you’re done with school so you think you have more money and can afford more things,” Akpan says. So, I preach about budgeting all the time.”.

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