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Managing Family Finances: Tips and Strategies for a Better Financial Future

Penny Pinchin' Mom

The post Managing Family Finances: Tips and Strategies for a Better Financial Future appeared first on Penny Pinchin' Mom. Family finances can be tricky! Provide your family with a desirable quality of life while still ensuring that your family’s finances are secure for the future. I would know.

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The 5 Most Important Personal Finance Lessons to Teach your Child

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Before you get ready to shove those kids of yours out of the nest, here are what I consider to be (based on my experience as a person, a Mom, and a Grandma) the most important things you (or someone) should teach them about personal finance. Here, told as I would tell it to my Grandkids, are my top 5 lessons. No one owes you a living.

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Grandparenthood Can Be Expensive!

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In Huffington Post article Boomers Give New Meaning To Spoiling The Grandkids author Linda Stern reported: “Roughly 36 percent of the grandparents surveyed by AARP said “spoiling (grand)children by buying them too much” was a part of a grandparent’s financial role.”. It’s my grandkid!”.

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How is Your Vacation Rental Doing?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

My differing perspectives on vacation rental finances. My Grandkids have grown up visiting the lake condo and love it. Wouldn’t it be fun to have a place where our sons, their wives and our grandchildren could come together to play, visit and bond? All of the above reasons were valid, and actually continue to be valid.

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Is the Building of Experiences and Memories Worth the Cost?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We could well afford the cost with no foreseeable problem with our own finances now or at any time in the future. One son is trying to rebuild finances after an expensive year. Our ideas of value differ. I was raised in a family that went on a two week road trip every year, no matter what.

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Ways for Busy Parents to Teach Young Children About Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Where ever your child is on the learning continuum – here are some ideas on ways to teach personal finance without spending (much) extra time specifically on it. My grandkids were 6 and 3 and they really got into this! Play board and online games that teach money or finance or business concepts. Food Related. In the Car.

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How To Recover From A Home Fire

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We were preparing to go out of town to the grandkids house the next morning. Take Care Of Finances. It was a Thursday night, the 20 th of December 2012. However, one of the presents didn’t make it via FedEx in time and I was arranging with my neighbor to pick it up and hide it on my porch in a plastic trash bag.

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