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How to Build your Emergency Fund

Family Balance Sheet

With little money in their bank accounts, these Americans couldn’t afford these unfortunate expenses without using a credit card or maybe relying on a loan from family and friends. We have lived through some challenging months as small business owners, but 2007 was a very tough year for us. A Very Tough Year.

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How to Build your Emergency Fund

Family Balance Sheet

With little money in their bank accounts, these Americans couldn’t afford these unfortunate expenses without using a credit card or maybe relying on a loan from family and friends. We have lived through some challenging months as small business owners, but 2007 was a very tough year for us. A Very Tough Year.

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5 Books with Insights that Changed the Way I Think About Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Save money in a bank account (or perhaps a company retirement plan). Even though we bought a house in 2007, I never once expected it to be a money-maker. When I was growing up, my ideas about money were limited. I figured the keys to financial success were: Get a good education. Get a good job. Work at said job for 30 or 40 years.

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What Is National Financial Literacy Month?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Only 13 percent of workers were ‘‘very confident’’ about having enough money for a comfortable retirement , a sharp decline in worker confidence from the 27 percent of workers who were ‘‘very confident’’ in 2007 (according to the 2011 Retirement Confidence Survey conducted by the Employee Benefit Research Institute).

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Should You Invest In A Rising Market?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

also from January feels confident that this bull is about over and that fundamentals look good for another ‘crash’ He says: “…this looks like 2007 all over again, with a burst of exuberance just before it all comes crashing down.”. Anthony Mirhaydari from MSN Money in an article Bull market or prelude to a bust?

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Over 40 and Worried about Money? Start here!

Family Balance Sheet

” Recently Go Banking Rates conducted two studies on savings rates with startling results. We had a very tough year back in 2007. A fair amount of Gen Xers feel that retirement sounds like a nice concept, but is hardly achievable. Another friend chimed in, “we’ll never stop working, retirement isn’t possible.”

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

We lived off my salary and banked Alan’s even before we were married so that we could build our own house (literally), paying cash as we went. In 2007, when the kids were 8 and 13, we recreated that trip – with a travel trailer and bunks instead of a miniscule tent. What’s your best frugal win? Spreadsheets are my friends.