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How I Organize My Paper Files and Filing Cabinet

Family Balance Sheet

During that process, I researched and reported back to you how long you should keep your financial documents. I use hanging files with tabs and manila folders to divide my categories and sub-files, depending on the amount of documents that I am storing. Major Category: Education - I keep a folder for each daughter.

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Revenge Spending and Other Married Money Tricks

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The New York Daily news reported that wife of Yankee ball player Alex Rodriguez’s wife ran up credit card debt of $100,000 when she found out about a dalliance between he and Madonna. Because of that, I urged my daughters-in-law to develop their own earning power. My own examples are a bit more mundane. Asset hiding.

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

Our daughter is 24 and was adopted from Eastern Europe when she was one week short of a year old. He married the love of his life almost two years ago, so now we have a daughter-in-law, too. I’m in my 60’s, I’ve been married to the love of my life for 44 years and we have two adult “kids.” Our son is 29 and biological. Go figure.