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

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Welcome to the May 11, 2012 Edition #236 of the Carnival of Financial Planning. Failure to monitor your consumption expenditures means that they are flying blindly regarding their future finances. Wayne presents Unexpected Costs of Pet Ownership posted at Young Family Finance , saying, “Pet ownership can be quite expensive.

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A mid-year update.

Finally Frugal

The good news is that I am on schedule to make more from my assorted part time jobs than I do at the full time job (now do you understand why I've not had the time or energy to update my blog more frequently?) Not an easy feat, especially when you consider that I am only averaging $2200 per month at the moment.

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Meet Carrie. She Paid Off $14,000 in Debt in 14 Months.

Family Balance Sheet

Yes, I did follow a few of Dave Ramsey’s strategies, but I also starting reading other finance blogs to see how they paid off debt so quickly. I took on extra work outside of my full-time accounting job. Were there arguments during the time you were working on your debt? N/A (I was single then).

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Meet a Reader | Biker Liz

The Frugal Girl

I don’t want to feel like I’m wasting all the gifts I’ve been given, including my finances. I wouldn’t qualify it as embarrassing, given the time period, but we lost our entire downpayment on the first house we bought. They had me, and then my mom decided to go back to school full-time and get a PhD.