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What Makes a Saver?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Those experiences – be they positive or negative – make us the person we are, at any given point in our lives. As a young mom, I saved like mad – going to garage sales, thrift stores and accepting hand me downs on toys and clothing. I also saved – maxing out 401K contributions to build up the retirement funds.

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Investment Methods

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I pick up a lot of them at garage sales for 25 cents to a $1. When I retired, I used this method to re-invest the proceeds from my company 401K (that I had rolled into an IRA). It caught me by surprise that the stocks/mutual funds in which I invested while in the 401K could not be transferred in kind to my IRA.

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