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How to Handle the Stock Market Roller Coaster Ride?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In fact, my first draft of this article was going to detail just that. If you want to read up on that stuff, plenty of it was written in 2008 and 2009. This economic downturn is just the ticket to accomplish some of those actions. Write down my life experiences on economic downturns for the future benefit of my grandchildren.

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Frugal housing.

Finally Frugal

That comment made me think about all of the news articles written by supposed 'experts' who predicted that we had (or would) hit bottom in 2008, or 2009, or 2010, or even 2011! Way to protect your backside, economic experts!) It seems that those of us in the trenches (like my commenter) may have more insight than the experts!

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Can’t Afford Private School? It May Not Matter.

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

According to the latest study by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), randomly selected 15 year old students in America are almost average compared to counterparts in 70 participating countries. Just average. Tuition for boarding schools was close to $37,017. (Of

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