Are you looking for creative ways to save money and cut costs in your everyday life? Identifying new opportunities to better manage your spending habits will be essential in reaching your money goals and making progress with your personal finances. A small shift in your spending could be the difference between building an emergency fund, getting started investing or alleviating the stresses money can bring. Every dollar saved can go towards your more meaningful goals or needs. So here’s what I asked members of the personal finance blogging community: What’s one unique or creative way you save money in your everyday life?

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These days, just about everyone is watching their finances a little closer than usual. One of the best ways to take better care of your money is to be more frugal, and you can learn how to improve your frugality from those who make it their passion. In this collection, you'll find 100 lessons from frugal people that can help you save some cash.

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If you feel like you're in over your head with personal debt, especially credit card debt, you're not alone. Millions of Americans have become overextended and in need of debt relief--in many cases, as a result of easy credit during tough economic times.

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Most would-be authors have never considered book sponsorship. Yet this is a creative and effective way to leverage other people’s money (usually corporations) so that you can write, publish and promote your book. Let’s look more closely at exactly how you can access this money.

When shipping containers reach the end of their voyaging lives, what happens to them? They're being re-purposed as homes, offices and even medical clinics!

Driving a Hummer is both impractical and a bit unfair to the environment, unless, of course, you’re a soldier. Nevertheless, there is something to this bulky vehicle that makes it a rather desirable possession. Well, if you’re sure you must own a Hummer, one way to fulfil this dream is to build a reduced-size replica.

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Being frugal is good. Saving money is such an obvious benefit to our lives that it drives our whole economy. As finance blog The College Investor points out, though, we aren't meant to stay frugal forever.

18 small ways to save a little bit of money here and there. It may not seem like much, but bear in mind, saving a little bit many times adds up to a lot over time.

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What if you could spend a fraction of what it would cost to buy or build your own house and instead build a unique home that you could make completely off grid? It can be done and there’s a bunch of people who’ve done it already. Shipping containers exist in a massive surplus and someone...

The three downloadable map packs released for Respawn Entertainment's futuristic first-person shooter Titanfall are currently free on Windows PC, Xbox One and Xbox 360. The free DLC is part of a giveaway tied to the game's one-year anniversary, developer Respawn confirmed in a post on the game's official website. Titanfall was released on March 11, 2014 for Xbox One and Windows PC.

A lifestyle of owning just the essentials has a small but passionate following among millennials. The first thing you need to know about Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus is that they like to hug. “Bring it in, man!” Nicodemus says as he pulls me in the first time I meet him. “We’re both huggers,” he says, pointing to Millburn. These two early-30s, overly sunny dudes are The Minimalists, two of the better-known apologists for a lifestyle of less.