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Kindergarten to College – Back to School Money Tips

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Not many – but by planning ahead now you might find ways to lessen the expenses you will face next month and use the annual experience as a teachable moment in your child’s personal finance education. Here are a few money tips to help you plan your back to school activities and maybe reduce that $600 per child amount. Get Social.

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Sustainable Living Traits To Pass On To Your Children

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Participate in local food drives and donations and involve your kids in your actions. You can make it fun for you kids by running a household scavenger hunt in which you reward you children for finding household items to donate, such as clothes, toys, books, old appliances, and canned goods.

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Totally Money Blog Carnival #18 – 6 Ways to Save Money Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I am talking about spring cleaning your finances and finding more ways you can save money. Today along with the great tips from my fellow personal finance bloggers, I am going to share with you six ways you can clean up your finances this season. Now on to the rest… Save Money this Spring: #1.

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Meet a Reader | Biker Liz

The Frugal Girl

What’s the “why” behind your money-saving efforts? Making good use of the resources I have – not only money, but my health, physical abilities, skills, etc. I don’t want to feel like I’m wasting all the gifts I’ve been given, including my finances. I have two!

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Meet Stacy. She and her husband paid off $20,000 in 8 Months.

Family Balance Sheet

She shares delicious recipes, money saving tips and frugal living posts at her blog, Stacy Makes Cents. We ended up using my remaining collage savings to pay that off. We swore we would never finance a car again. Barry worked extra side carpentry jobs and we put all that money toward debt. Where are you from?

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