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Setting Financial Goals: Make Them Smart and Simple

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Those who just go along, hoping for the best, are usually the ones who struggle financially or get themselves into too much debt. Setting financial goals is an important part of planning to achieve financial security and have enough money in your retirement years to live the way you want. When will you buy your own home?

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Stay the Course Financially

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

” The survey released in 2010 indicated: “Average annual expenditures per consumer unit1 fell 2.0 percent in 2010 following a decrease of 2.8 Since then, the rate has been trending upward, reaching around 6% in the third quarter of 2010. percent compared with the July 2013 through June 2014 midyear average, the U.S.

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Find out How Brian & His Wife Paid off $109,000 in Credit Card Debt

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In June of 2010, we hit our rock bottom point. If we want something today we save for it and then buy it. What are your financial goals now? It was many years of over spending and not having a plan for our money that led us to that point. What inspired you to get debt free? Was there a particular event?

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