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Designate a Family Office Manager | Marriage & Money

Family Balance Sheet

Chapter 17 in this book is titled, “Why not run the family office?” She treated her role like a job and helped her family achieve financial independence. Even though I was helping my husband from home part-time with his business, I still felt like I wasn’t contributing to our finances and that drove me crazy.

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Meet a Reader | Gretchen from Oregon

The Frugal Girl

We spend most of our time seeing friends and family, participating in our church activities or working on our property. I do a lot of our cooking from scratch which takes a lot of my time! but can use our money to enjoy life now and meet our family’s needs while still being responsible for the future 5.

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Meet a Reader | Mid-Atlantic Julia

The Frugal Girl

Last year, to make a little extra cash, I started boarding dogs through Rover, and I am about to start a very very part time job using my RN license for a home care company. Our family lives on a ten-acre homestead property in the Mid-Atlantic region which we bought in early 2022.

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Parenting Pointers - What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Children on Social Media

Motherhood Moments

For example, the non-profit Wait Until 8 th urges parents to wait until children are in the eighth grade before giving them a smartphone. Have a talk with your children and work together to make rules about how much social media time is allowed each day. Also, decide on times when the entire family will “unplug” to enjoy time together.

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The Best and Worst Times to Side Hustle

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you take on part time work while collecting unemployment you have to report it and give up a quarter of your weekly unemployment pay for each day of part time work, no matter how few hours or how little the earnings. Oddly enough, side hustling when you’re unemployed doesn’t always make financial sense.

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Working on My Time Management

Family Balance Sheet

For 6 years, my kids have dictated my schedule and now I am juggling working part time outside of the home, shuttling my kids to soccer practice, managing our home, spending quality time with my family, training for my first half-marathon in October, and finding time to work in my blog and other projects.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

Family Balance Sheet

If you are self-employed, work for a company or in an industry that is unstable, or maybe you or someone in your family has medical issues, you might want to save 6-12 months of expenses. It sounds dreadful, but it is possible to reduce your grocery bill without making everyone in your family miserable. 17 – Find a part-time job.