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Benefit from My Financial Mistakes

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

My parents scrimped and saved for years to send my brother and I through state university. I did not take advantage of either high school or college counselors to help figure it out. Consequently, I overpaid for cars and real estate my entire life and I let others underpay me for my services. My spouse is a veteran.

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How to Say No When a Sibling Asks for Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We are raised by parents to be nice to our brothers and sisters, to care for them and about them and to share with them – after all, they are family. There’s also the “hidden string” factor, where the receiving party is pressured to, say, spend weekends expressing gratitude by cleaning his brother’s gutters.

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