What is the best way to save money and invest some money?

I am a single mother who has 2 boys and am about to have the advantage of saving a few bucks each month after paying all of the bills...any suggestions on how to safely invest ?

put a regular amount each month into a bank or mutual fund money market account, and once you've saved up enough you can start to diversity into riskier but potentially more lucrative stock and bond mutual funds. Starting out like you are, probably best to establish the savings discipline by regular savings.

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Learn how to Find your money. say 5 to 10 bucks a day could make a change! BUT!.....if your living paycheck to paycheck and think u cant do that, look at the daily fixed expenditures. such as that starbucks drink thats 3.50 and that power bar thats 1.75, and thats just in the morning think of lunch, and dinner, but you can squeeze out a little but of change to equal at least 5 a day!

5 a day =150/month or 2000 a year, by age 50 you WILL have 1.2 million dollars!

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well hope this helps!!!

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