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Build Your Home Food Storage Without Breaking the Bank

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

One of the best things you can do for the sake of your own self reliance is to build up your home food storage. You can start building your home food storage little by little — without a huge capital outlay. Look at your spending plan, and determine how much money you have each week to put toward building your food storage.

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Enrollment is OPEN for Elite Blog Academy

Family Balance Sheet

Ruth from the wildly successful blog, Living Well Spending Less , has created the course Elite Blog Academy and it is designed to help you take your blog to new heights. But I couldn’t stop thinking about her course, so a few months ago I decided to make the investment and enroll in the first-ever Elite Blog Academy course.

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Green Investing Tips: How To Place Your Dollar In Conscious Companies

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

While we were all plenty burned by the 2008 crash, with a slow turnaround there remain many sectors in which to place your investing dollar. Personal charity is, of course, an investment in both the planet and ourselves. A slowly rising tide can sometimes lift all corporate boats. An ethical investor can come in many stripes.

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10 Best Low-Risk Investments In April 2024

Savings Corner

Building a portfolio that has at least some less-risky assets can be useful in helping you ride out volatility in the market. The trade-off, of course, is that in lowering risk exposure, investors are likely to earn lower returns over the long run. But in general, it’s lower risk than a growth stock.”

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Benefits of the Great Outdoors

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

How much time do you spend outside of a building vs. indoors? The Daily Mail reported that Professor Roger Ulrich, a leading expert in the benefits of natural green space noted that hospital patients who had a room with a natural view went home 2 – 3 days before patients that had a room with a view of buildings. Reduce stress.

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Meet a Reader | Kim from Iowa

The Frugal Girl

We bought our house as a short sale in 2008. International travel when I was in high school really shaped the course of my life and I wanted to share that with my boys. The plan is for us to both retire around age 58 and move back to the small town where I grew up. What’s your best frugal win? One of four nightstands we made!

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Psychological Tips for Successful Stock Investing

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

These psyc tips are from an investment book first published in the early 1960′s “ Build a Fortune in the Stock Market” by David L. Don’t we all wish we had kept a closer eye on the events prior to 2008 and 2009 and sold our positions prior to that! I confess to being an amateur on this after the 2008 crash.