Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 10, 2012

I like to bake cookies, and I like to budget. I’ve failed at many budgets this way. If you Google how to make a budget, you’ll find the same boilerplate list of steps on thousands of sites. This is what I like to call the Toll House budget. It’ll balance your income and expenses like a check book, but that is all.

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APRIL 29, 2015

Looking for new recipes, money-saving ideas, home-management tips, and strategies for debt-free living? Then you’ll want to sign up now for the free FBS Weekly Email Newsletter! Plus, if you subscribe now, you’ll get a chance to win these three personal finance books.

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Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 1, 2015

Today’s Debt Free Story is from Brian. He writes at Debt Discipline about about how his family of 5 deals with money, budgets and debt. We have involved our children in our money discussion once we decided to become debt free. How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it?

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

If you’re thinking about some resolutions for 2017 that have to do with YOUR finances, then I’m inviting you to join me in January for the New Year New You Financial Summit. Toni Husbands of Debt Free Divas. LaTisha is a nationally recognized, millennial personal finance expert. 8 pm EST: TBD.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 22, 2012

Canadian Finance Blog hosted the Canadian Finance Carnival #76 and included the guest post Staying Positive in a Bad Situation as did Thirty Six Months who hosted Carnival of Financial Camaraderie – Rain Man Edition. Girls Just Wanna Have Funds included Nelson’s post, Saving Money on Las Vegas in the Carnival of Personal Finance #351.

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APRIL 19, 2016

Today’s Debt Free Story is from Anna. She is on a mission to help others become debt free. She writes at her personal finance website, And Then We Saved. It was a mix of college loans, a personal loan from my parents (for college), an overdraft account, and credit card debt.

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APRIL 12, 2016

Today’s Debt Free Story is from Jessica. I work in Finance/Accounting for a large corporation but I have also started a company called Every Single Dollar , which focuses on personal finance for single women. How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? Simply doing a budget.

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