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

Penny Pinchin' Mom

What I have found to work is that if I can access my emergency fund within 24-48 hours, it is ideal both in terms of easy accessibility and liquidity as well as inconvenient enough that I don’t get tempted to dip into it for something it really shouldn’t be used for. Look Into Life Insurance Do you have a life insurance policy?

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How to Budget (and Pay) for Yearly Bills + a FREE Speadsheet

Family Balance Sheet

Our home owner’s insurance, auto insurance, and local real-estate taxes (for our home and our business property) are due, and on top of that, there have been years where we also owed the Federal government. Our list includes: home owner’s insurance – due yearly. auto insurance – due yearly.

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How Anyone Can Create Passive Income

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Each one of these investments can provide an excellent income with very little amounts of work, but they also need a large amount of up-front cash! This statement says it all – we may not have the money to invest in real estate or a big business, but we most likely can invest our time. Passive Income With Real Estate.

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Create a Personal Escrow Account for Your Quarterly & Yearly Bills

Family Balance Sheet

Our home-owner’s insurance, auto insurance, and local real-estate taxes (for our home and our business property) are due, and on top of that, we also owed the Federal government this year. We were no longer required to send an escrow payment to the bank for our real estate taxes and home owners insurance.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #236 – May 11, 2012

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The best part is, people interested in your work will pay you for rights to your photo. ” Jason presents Why We Didn’t Sell Our Car on Craigslist posted at Work Save Live , saying, “Last week I detailed why we considered buying a car through CarMax, and I wanted to do a follow-up on a service of theirs that we actually used.

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Yakezie Carnival – Credit Cards Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The Debt Princess: The Kool-Aid Effect: The Relationship Between the Poor & Nutrition – A look into how the working poor are eating unhealthy. This post discusses the top 10 myths about life insurance. – Not only is it possible to retire on real estate, there are many benefits that you need to take advantage of.