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How We’re Using Upromise to Save for College

Family Balance Sheet

Way back in 2008 I signed up for a Upromise account and then it sat unused for many years. Back in 2008, I was a mama to a toddler and infant, so a lot of things slipped my mind. Right before the pandemic started, I opened 529 College Savings Accounts for our daughters. All links to Upromise are my referral links. Hello, 2020.

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

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Ignoring government attempts to regulate our kids into better test scores, many parents are having the public vs private school debate. ” The USDA study tries to account for things like ethnicity, family income, and English language proficiency, and the skill and experience of the teaching staff. Just average.

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6 Things I Learned When I Became an Investor

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Aside from a couple of brief forays into non-bank type accounts in the eighties and one family investment club, my investing experience dates to the early 1990’s. We finally had enough income left over after paying expenses and saving for kids to attend college to start investing it. The market goes up and down.

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Meet a Reader | Kim from Iowa

The Frugal Girl

I had been at my previous job for 17 years (straight out of college) and it had turned into a very toxic situation. We can decorate it however we want and then we post it on Facebook and have our friends and family vote on their favorite. Growing up we tended to be a paycheck-to-paycheck family. Being consistent.

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10 Health Benefits of Sex – Sex Can be healthy

Coupons Do Work

Not sure why since I have two kids… but I am. took samples of saliva, which contain IgA, from 112 college students who reported the frequency of sex they had. That finding makes sense to Gina Ogden, PhD, a sex therapist and marriage and family therapist in Cambridge, Mass., © 2008 WebMD, LLC. Sex Relieves Stress.

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