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How to Create a Family Balance Sheet + Get a FREE one for your family!

Family Balance Sheet

Let me show you how to create a Family Balance Sheet. If it’s updated regularly, you will always know how much you OWE and how much you OWN. You’ll know how much is in your checking and savings accounts and your retirement accounts. Need a quick snapshot of your finances? Our Debt Freedom Plan.

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How to Prioritize Home Improvement Projects

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Since we moved into our home in late 2012, my husband and I have been go, go, go with all of the improvements, renovations and small projects we have been taking on. How do you prioritize your projects? How to Make Yourself Happier. It feels like every weekend is full of yard work, chop saws, painting and elbow grease.

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How to Quit Smoking Naturally

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

There are many ideas on how to quit smoking; some very successful and others are dismal failures. Improving my mediation practice is one of my 2012 projects. No that my rant is done, I wanted to talk to you today about quitting smoking in a natural way. Yes it is possible. Tell everyone you know that smokes that they can be smoke free.

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How To Recover From A Home Fire

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

It was a Thursday night, the 20 th of December 2012. How Does One Even Comfort A Neighbour Who Has Just Suffered This Kind Of Loss? We don’t know those neighbors very well, don’t know their cell phone numbers or how to contact them. How does a person extend empathy in these types of situation?

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How to Plan a Multi-Generation Family Vacation

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

But our best trip was in 2012, when we funded a trip to Yellowstone with our two sons, their wives and our grandchildren. For our 2012 trip (which we took in June), I started the fall before. We took my Mom with us to Florida in the 1980’s. Start planning early. Start early. Grandparenthood Can Be Expensive!

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How To Drive Green And Save On Gas Mileage

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

According to Edmunds, forty-six 2012 models are equipped with start/stop systems to help increase fuel economy. How to Save Money on Gas. For instance, don’t turn off your vehicle at a very long red light, but when you are waiting for your child to get off school, you can certainly turn off the engine safely.

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2012 Financial Goals

Family Balance Sheet

We are still working through some numbers and there might be some adjustments in the timelines we have given ourselves, but these are our financial priorities for 2012. Our 2012 Financial Goals. Our first decision is how much do we want to save for each of the girls and then we'll go from there. Finish Will. No more excuses.