Article: Penny-pinching power: Candace Lewis is proving that saving on consumer purchases can be satisfying: Lewis is saving on smaller purchases so she can send her daughter to private school.(Black Wealth Initiative)

THESE DAYS, JUST ABOUT EVERYONE IS LOOKING TO "make a dollar out of 15 cents," says 34-year-old Candace Lewis Lewis was never one to pay close attention to her finances, but once she had her daughter, she realized that she had to tighten the straps on her pocketbook in order to make ends meet.

"I could always save a buck, but the real crunch came when I decided to send my daughter to private school," says Lewis, a single mother who works in the corporate technology billing department of a securities firm in downtown New York City.

To afford the $650 per month tuition for her 6-year-old first-grader, Jurnee Wade, Lewis practices Declaration of Financial ...

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