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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #241 – June 15, 2012

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The Skilled Investor , Editor Budgeting and Economics Paul Vachon presents Frugal Living Made Easy posted at The Frugal Toad , saying, “Frugal living is all about making informed and deliberate choices in how to spend money. Jason presents Car Loans Are Now Americans’ No. Not so today.

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8 Ways to Prevent Identity Theft

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If we pause and think, there are many activities we do in a course of a day where we put our personal information at risk- from writing a cheque to charging an item in person or on the phone. According to an inspection done by the US Postal Service in 2004, there were over 10 million cases of identity theft in one year alone.

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More Drilling is Not The Solution We Need for Our Energy Future

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

According to the Energy Information Administration back in 2004, opening an Alaska wildlife refuge to drilling would only lower oil prices by less than 50 cents a barrel. At least it doesn’t to me; but then again I don’t have coffers full of oil money, either. More drilling does not equal lower prices at the pump.

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4 Tips To Starting Your Financial Plan

Saving Cents With Sense

Take a financial inventory for the last two months to determine how much money you have coming in and where it is going. Based on this information, make a budget. Cut out unnecessary spending and use that money to build an emergency fund. When it comes to contributing additional money to this fund, explore all your options.

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A.C. Moore Partners with Alex’s Lemonade Stand

Nicoles Nickels

Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) emerged from the front yard lemonade stand of cancer patient Alexandra “Alex” Scott (1996-2004). In 2000, 4-year-old Alex announced that she wanted to hold a lemonade stand to raise money to help find a cure for all children with cancer. Here are the instructions for the cool tote bag!

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Medi-Share Update: One Year Later

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It will provide perspective for the following information and numbers. We had high deductible health plans from 2004 – 2016 and contributed many years to a health savings account. However, we will have to put the money into a regular savings account, since we are no longer allowed to contribute to a health savings account.

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An Update on Medi-Share – September 2017

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We have had high deductible health insurance plans since 2004 and during that time, we only hit our deductible one year. That might seem like a lot of money (and it certainly is!), For more information on Medi-Share: Why We Chose Medi-Share. We chose a $10,000 annual household portion. If so, which one?

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