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The Hidden Secrets Frugal Moms

If you were lucky to be born into the secondhand-spoon club of "Frugal Moms", my congratulations to you. I was not born with such a useful talent.

I am, as you may say, "frugally handicapped". I'm not a shopaholic. I don't try to spend a lot of money. I'm just not naturally talented in frugality.

{Photo by Jessica Shannon}

Although there were many wonderful things about growing up in rural Iowa, learning the art of "bargain shopping" was not one of them.

The travel distance to the store (30 - 40 minutes) meant that we bought what was needed, sale or no.

As a result, I was a fairly uneducated "frugal mom". Shopping on sale was a foreign language and I was about 6-days old.

Time and time again I have run into mothers who could stretch a dollar into...well...twenty. It is amazing. I am truly in awe of their talent.

After countless conversations, I learned that this "talent" was a learned pattern of thinking and behavior that was so logical that even I, with my sale-handicap, could learn to do it.

I'm so thankful that handling money wisely is a skill I can learn. Before children, my husband and I lived a life relatively free of financial stress. We didn't make a lot of money (I was a social worker for pete's sake!), but it was easy to control our expenses.

Once the babies started to come, I began to realize how much harder it is to balance the finances of a family of three... then four...That's when I decided that, whether I liked it or not, it was time to start living and thinking as one of those frugal moms I so admired.

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