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Carnival of Personal Finance #316- Family Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Hello and welcome to the 316th Carnival of Personal Finance- Family Edition. Big Cajun Man from THE Canadian Personal Finance Site asks What is Your Financial Plan B? Anon from Gen Y Capitalist tells Why It’s Better to Travel NOW Rather Than Save For Later. It has gone on for generations. What do you think?

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Cool Things I Read This Week

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Reader Asks About Selling Home to Pay Off Debt – [link] I agree. Prairie Eco-Thrifter has Been Featured in the Carnival of Personal Finance # 297 [link] #. RT @ LiveRealNow 5 Reasons Why I Splurge On Travel [link] What do you splurge on? #. Paying Debt vs. Saving Money [link] I say pay off debt.

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Create your debt freedom plan

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Our personal finances are so interwoven with our small business finances that we view them as one. And as you’ll see below, we also added a few more steps that he probably wouldn’t suggest or approve of, but there’s a reason why this is called personal finance. Paying off debt is not fun.

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Yakezie Carnival October 16, 2011- Growth Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Now without further adieu, I present you with the dozens of great reads written by Yakezie members and challengers alike this past week in our efforts to bring you timely insight on personal finance and lifestyle today. Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Refinance Your Mortgage and Pay the Same Amount?

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Find out how Richard paid off $40,000 of debt

Family Balance Sheet

Many personal finance bloggers talk about having a “no spend week” – well basically I had a “no spend” five years! In general though, the process of paying off debt has taught me a lot of things, and its a lifestyle I continue to this day. For example I got up at 3.45

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Find out how Jessica paid off $56,000 of student loans, credit cards, and a car loan.

Family Balance Sheet

I work in Finance/Accounting for a large corporation but I have also started a company called Every Single Dollar , which focuses on personal finance for single women. How much debt did you pay off? I guess I am spending more on travel now than I did when I was getting out of debt.