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How To Recover From A Home Fire

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We were preparing to go out of town to the grandkids house the next morning. Andi has a blog about her house burning to the ground in the Boulder wildfires of 2010 and it brings tears to my eyes. Understand That Dealing With Loss Takes Time. It was a Thursday night, the 20 th of December 2012.

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Seven Retirement Lessons Learned

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I have been since April 7, 2010. In 2010, my company was just preparing to do their first round of recession related layoffs. Lesson Four – Deal with Company Retirement Plans. I’m retired! Hubby retired in July 2007. We found that we could afford it (Happy, happy days!). Remember to include taxes as an expense.