What Motivates you to stay frugal?


For me it is
Searching for a good deal
Putting every penny I don't save into savings and watching it grow
Living simple. The more I do for myself and rely less on technology of sorts I feel more empowered.


What about you?

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My choices yesterday create my today. My choices today create my tomorrow.

The alleviation of future stress is my greatest motivator. This ties into paying for current and future international adoptions. I am so glad I found this site.

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My family, especially baby. I want to make sure I have the best for them.

For me, it's watching our savings grow, even if it's only by a few dollars. The other thing that keeps me motivated (even though sometimes I get way off track), is my family...especially my husband. I just want to make him proud of me, and to do the most with the money he works soooooo hard for. I've not always been the best at that!!

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~*~ Angie~*~
Wife to Brian
SAHM to Sarah & Andy 2/11/2000

Watching our debt shrink and our savings grow. Teaching my children that debt doesn't have to be the way. I also am enjoying less stuff. Sounds weird I know but less dusting and moving around things is making me very happy.

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My family...making sure we are able to provide for ourselves and not have to depend on anyone.

I am also motivated by the fact that I really do not want to go back to work fulltime unless I want to.

seeing how much I can get for my money. I'm starting to love grocery shopping, and coming home and seeing how much I got that was within my budget.

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It's not what you make; it's what you spend.

Lack of money!

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~Happiness is a large family~

Between tax returns and working all most fulltime hours for the past 5mths we have paid off all of our debt. It's a huge relief to not have that hanging over our heads now.I've even managed to put about $1,800 into our savings account. What motivates me to stay frugal and control any impluse buys is remembering back to this past summer/fall when we were barely holding our heads above water and just drowning in our regular monthly expenses. The stess of it all was just making me sick. I don't ever want to be in that situation again. So now when i am out shopping and i spot something i am tempted to buy, i tell myself " remember when?" and think how many hours of work i would have to put in to pay for it. That keeps me in check!

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"Go on, get outside, get the stink blown off ya!!"

Financial freedom motivates me the most. I want to be able to do, be, have, and give away whatever I want freely and with a joyful heart. The closer we get to that point, the easier I am breathing, and it feels wonderful.

The secondary thing that motivates me are the positive feelings I get when I do-it-myself, whether it be cooking, baking, home improvement projects, sewing, etc. It's good to feel like I know what I'm doing, and teaching my children the same. I'm proud that they like do-it-yourself projects as well. I think most of our projects allow us to be pretty creative, and that's fun.

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Attaining financial freedom is like eating an elephant . . . it takes one bite at a time.