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Revenge Spending and Other Married Money Tricks

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Make sure that you have access to and a chance to review all financial records, including check books, bank statements, other financial institution statements, insurance policies, mortgage documents, and etc if your partner is the one managing the books at home. Because of that, I urged my daughters-in-law to develop their own earning power.

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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. Our mom stayed home to raise us kids; she went to work part-time in the local school system after both my brother and I were in school.