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Should You Invest In A Rising Market?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Ever since we stumbled past the Fiscal Cliff and the budget crisis, the stock market has been rising like a hot air balloon in an updraft (at least as of the time this post was written at the end of March 2013). We individual investors have all become market skittish since the recent huge recession and economic downturn.

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Can You Cut Expenses by a Half Million Dollars?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

With the advent of the Great Recession, today’s populations are re-learning frugality and expense reduction. We weren’t actually able to save the money we didn’t spend. We couldn’t save it or spend it because it was money we did not have. After the kid’s left home hubby and I saved another $84,384.

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Adult Children Living At Home – How To Approach It

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

A recent study by the Pew Research Center found that 25% of parents have one or more of their adult children living back at home with them, while a 2007 Canadian census showed that 44% of adult children between 20 and 29 have moved back in. Save your money. Advantages to Having Adult Children Living at Home. How do you approach it?

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