8 Ways to Beat Inflation

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This is a follow-up article from Why you should care about Inflation.

Over time, inflation will erode both your standard of living and your savings. I am a firm believer that life should improve constantly. Once I identified inflation as a threat to that, I started learning and trying out ways to beat it.

This post summarizes 8 ways that I’ve used to counter inflation.

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Why you should care about Inflation

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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
~ Sam Ewing

We only have to go to a local grocery to know what inflation is all about – rising prices. The worry we have is that our income is not rising as fast and we don’t really know when it will get better.

I am going to put to you that inflation is here to stay and you cannot sit and wait long enough for it to go away. This article explains the cause of inflation and why you should care about it.

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