Lauren Cabello Shares Financial Tips to Stay on Budget this Holiday Season
Debt-free Life Coach Lauren Cabello offers ideas to keep financial sound this shopping season

Debt-free Life Coach Lauren Cabello once had more than $40,000 worth of debt but worked her way to financial freedom. Lauren developed systems and strategies to work her way out of debt with proven strategies that have helped thousands of other busy families. It is all designed to take back control of budgets to have financial freedom. Here is some timely financial advice to help avoid any potential budget hurdles during the holiday shopping season. Whether shopping at usual stores, online, or at specialty shops the key is to have a budget plan and stick to it. 

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FIND THE BEST DEALS

Holiday shopping ads can be overwhelming. Start by visiting Slickdeals.net. It is a community of millions of real people, working together to save, so everyone can be confident they are getting the best deal. There are 12 million shoppers helping other shoppers, vet and vote up the very best deals from all the top retailers like Amazon and Walmart so anyone can find deals on everything from toys to electronics and know that everyone is actually getting the best product at the best price.

MONITOR SPENDING

Download the Qube Money app which has reinvented how to think about how budgeting and how spending works. It is the best budgeting app to help plan any holiday spending. Within Qube, set up digital spending categories and with the Qube debit card anyone can spend directly from those categories, making it so easy to stick to the money plan for that month. To stretch those dollars this holiday, download Qube. For more information, visit qubemoney.com

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