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What Is National Financial Literacy Month?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Forty-one percent of adults in the United States gave themselves a grade of C, D, or F on their knowledge of personal finance (according to the 2011 Consumer Financial Literacy Survey Final Report of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling). Your children know that you are saving money.

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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. After trying to extend credit to finance the vacation and we were denied (best thing to ever happen to us) we realized we made too much money to be living like this and something had to change. Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally?

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How To Recover From A Home Fire

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Andi has a blog about her house burning to the ground in the Boulder wildfires of 2010 and it brings tears to my eyes. Take Care Of Finances. After 2 years of healing she is able to say: “It is two years after the fire, and I am still reinventing myself in so many ways. Let the mortgage company know about the fire.

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