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Setting Financial Goals: Make Them Smart and Simple

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Those who just go along, hoping for the best, are usually the ones who struggle financially or get themselves into too much debt. Setting financial goals is an important part of planning to achieve financial security and have enough money in your retirement years to live the way you want. When will you have kids?

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Start Planning and Budgeting for Summer TODAY!

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As a family, we are looking forward to camping trips, a week at the beach, and cookouts with friends. ” Kids (and parents) get excited about summer trips and activities, so I like to post a family calendar on the refrigerator with all of our summer plans and activities. How much is summer going to cost you and your family?

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How to Manage Different Investment Risk Tolerances Between Spouses

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You may not even be aware that you each have different perspectives on what risk is or how much to take when you invest. In Silver Spoon Kids - How Successful Parents Raise Responsible Children by Eileen Gallo, P.H.D. family stories about money. Set your financial goals. And Jon Gallo, J.D,

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Carnival of Personal Finance #316- Family Edition

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Hello and welcome to the 316th Carnival of Personal Finance- Family Edition. This week I am reminding you all about those special people in your life- your family. It was during this rather taxing weekend that I was reminded of how great a loving family can be. Families are our rock, our support system, and our fans.

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What We Ate this Week on our Budget 09.15.17

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Our monthly grocery budget for my family of 4 is $500. It’s a tight budget and I failed miserably over the summer, but we have lots of financial goals, so I need to get it back in line. As soon as the kids walk in the door after school, we are off and running. Dinner #2 is our actual family dinner.

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Four Weekend Activities that will Rock Your Financial World

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Our weekends are filled with leisure and required activities – from cleaning house, mowing lawns, running kids to ball games and more. If you can take a few minutes out once in a while on the weekend to perform just four financial activities, your financial world could change. Are your goals meshed with theirs?

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Create your debt freedom plan

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At that time, our kids were 8 & 6, and now they’re both teenagers and wrapping up ninth & seventh grades. We celebrated both occasions with a family cruise that we paid for with cash. Once Non-Mortgage Debts are paid, cash flow a FAMILY TRIP TO DISNEY. Cash flow a FAMILY TRIP TO HAWAII. DONE November 2019.

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