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How to Handle the Stock Market Roller Coaster Ride?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you want to read up on that stuff, plenty of it was written in 2008 and 2009. It’s Time to Re-Stock for Emergencies. I will re-stock the pantry and re-fill the water jugs we keep. Using the older generation’s (ye gods how did that get to be me!?) Am I just weird or do some of you also react that way?

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7 Steps To Homelessness And What To Do If You Get There

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Use Up Existing Resources. Since she could no longer afford to pay it, she stopped the home insurance and stopped using the cars she inherited (also free and clear). She stopped paying income tax on the rare occasions when she did have income and did not pay county real estate taxes. Only take what you will actually use now.