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Homemade Lip Balm Your Friends Will Love

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Learn to make your own luxurious lip balm.
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Lip balm that you’ve made from the heart and home is a lovely holiday gift. Your friends will think of you every time they pamper themselves with one of your luscious creations!  Lip balms are also the perfect stocking stuffer or Secret Santa gift.  It’s easy to slip a decorative tin, jar or tube of lip balm into a Christmas stocking or onto your Secret Santa’s desk at work.

Shhhhhhhhh! Keep it under cover or everyone will want one!

Just kidding! This post was part of a series on money saving ideas for the holidays, so be sure to check out the other articles. In this post, I’m sharing my favorite quick and easy recipe, along with resources for where you can purchase supplies to make inexpensive but fabulous lip balm.

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5 Simple Ways To Save Money During The Holidays

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Photo of a piggy bank wearing a Santa cap. Save money during the holidays by keeping an eye on your savings.
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Save money during the holidays – these simple tips will teach you how!

What do the holidays have to do with personal finance? Plenty, it turns out. It’s easy to spend a little more than expected with the hope creating special memories with family and friends.

In fact, it’s not uncommon to overspend during the holidays. Christmas has become very commercialized, with decorations popping up in stores earlier every year. Clever marketing often entices shoppers to spend more than planned. Once January rolls around and credit card bills start piling up, you may feel pressured to put a hold on retirement savings in order to cover your bills.

However, there’s nothing wrong with saving money during the holidays. You can learn to avoid the stress of overspending and protect your retirement savings by following simple ways to save money during the holidays.

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Save Money, Improve Life By Joining A Babysitting Club

Image of Playdough, wooden rolling pin and cookie cutters, for play at a babysitting club.
Children enjoy simple activities like playing with Playdough at babysitting clubs. Image by LMoonlight via Pixabay.

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How We Saved Money and Improved Our Marriage by Joining a Babysitting Club

A babysitting club can be a real money saver!  It can also provide you with precious couple time so you can nurture your relationship with your partner! In this post I’m going to share some reasons why you might want to join a babysitting club, my experience using a babysitting club, tips for starting your own club, and how the money you save can boost your retirement nest egg.

I’m always on the lookout for creative ways to boost retirement savings, because I want to help people see that it’s never too late to start saving. If reducing childcare costs can free up money in your budget, redirect the money you save into your retirement account!

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Blog Hop: 20 Questions from Eclectic Evelyn

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Photo of a baby with a laptop computer. A blog hop will broaden your blog's exposure to gain new readers.
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What is a blog hop?

Being new to blogging, I had no idea what a blog hop was. The first time I became aware that blog hops even existed was when I discovered one over at Eclectic Evelyn’s website. Participating in a blog hop sounded like fun, though, so I decided to give it a try.

In the process I learned that a blog hop is a great way to find other interesting bloggers to follow. You get a chance to discover what you have in common with other bloggers and make new connections.

A blog hop can also be a fun strategy for promoting your own blog. If you are blogging as a creative way to catch-up retirement savings, you want more eyes on your blog. Hopefully, what you’ve written will be so entertaining that readers will check out some of your other posts, follow you, purchase your products or click on your ads to help you make money.

I know I definitely enjoyed checking out more of Eclectic Evelyn’s site! Let’s get to the blog hop Q & A . . .

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10 Fun Hobbies to Make Money for Retirement.

Photo of scuba divers with underwater cameras. Underwater photography is one of many potential money-making hobbies.
If only we’d been better underwater photographers, we could have turned our love of scuba diving into a money-making hobby!

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It’s easy to overspend on hobbies.  There was a time when my husband and I thought we “deserved” to reward ourselves with expensive hobbies.  We worked hard, and played hard.  It would have been great if we’d had a few money-making hobbies back then!

In this post, I’ll share 10 fun hobbies that don’t cost very much to start.  These are money-making hobbies that can bring in extra cash to help boost your retirement savings.

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