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Our 2019 Financial Goal

Family Balance Sheet

This should have been done as soon as we became parents back in 2005, but we kept putting it off. That’s the amount of our medical bills we need to pay before our bills are covered by the members’ shares. Unfortunately, we had a medical event in 2017 and we were on the hook for the first 10k of bills.

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US Presidents and Personal Finance

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I wonder if that could be part of our national debt problem. We toured Monticello in 2005 and learned that Thomas Jefferson, one of my favorite presidents died a pauper. He ended up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and only salvaged his estate by selling (after his death) his civil war memoirs. Presidents.

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What Is National Financial Literacy Month?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Well according to the bill’s sponsors, in the resolution presented to and passed by the 112 th Congress this March, we have a lot of issues to solve. Household debt stood at $13,200,000,000,000 at the end of the third quarter of 2010 (according to a 2011 ‘‘Flow of Funds’’ report by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System).

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Meet a Reader | M from the PNW

The Frugal Girl

Luckily, not poor enough to wreck our lives, but basically we lived paycheck to paycheck—our philosophy was “As long as the bills are paid, spend it all.” And neither of us is comfortable carrying debt beyond the mortgage. ” We didn’t even really vacation; it was mostly frequent eating out and retail spending.