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Home Insurance Calculator: Estimate Your Rate – December 2023

Savings Corner

If you have a mortgage, you can choose to have your lender pay your homeowners insurance bill through your escrow account. Otherwise, you’ll have to pay the bill yourself. If you have a mortgage, you can choose to have your lender pay your homeowners insurance bill through your escrow account. 300,000 in liability coverage.

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Why Being Rich is Overrated

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

People think that being rich will solve all their problems – they can pay their bills, buy what they want , live where they want, not have to go to work, travel and have lots of holidays. Why is wealth so attractive? Being rich is associated with being famous, popular and influential. Maybe that’s the answer. So, what do you think?

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Christmas Savings Club | March Meeting

Family Balance Sheet

About a year ago, a friend of mine on Facebook shared that she saves $1 bills that have Federal Reserve letters that match the first letter of her kids’ names. The Federal Reserve letter, the black seal to the left of George Washington, is the seal that bears the name and corresponding letter of the distributing Federal Reserve Bank.

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The High Price of Excuses, Justification, and Avoidance.

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Me: How about staying in Manhattan, just in a more reasonably priced neighborhood, Washington Heights? When you overspend for convenience, you sink into debt, stuck with high interest credit card payments and risk of damaging your credit when you fall behind on your bills. Me: Could you make your commute time productive somehow?

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Four Reasons to Have a Gravel Driveway

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

According to The Washington Times : “The Rain Tax essentially charges homeowners for any surface of land they own that does not absorb rainwater. Instead, the water soaks into our water table, helping our trees and bushes moisturize. Because of this, in April 2013, Maryland lawmakers implemented what is referred to as a Rain Tax.

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US Presidents and Personal Finance

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

George Washington; Lyndon Johnson (self made); both Roosevelts; Herbert Hoover (self made); Bill Clinton (self made after he was President) and John Kennedy were all multi-millionaires. He earned 1.57 million in 2010 – most of this comes from royalties on his two books (Dreams from My Father, and Audacity of Hope).

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Amazon – Killing Lincoln {Hardcover} $2.99

For the Mommas

A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O’Reilly. In the midst of the patriotic celebrations in Washington D.C.,

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