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What Makes a Saver?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In the book, “Young Bucks – How to raise a future millionaire” author Troy Dunn claims that the greatest gift you can ever give your child is the ‘gift of want’ Unless a child wants something badly enough, they won’t spend the time and energy to try to figure out a way to go get it. Time of life.

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Investment Methods

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I pick up a lot of them at garage sales for 25 cents to a $1. For the price of giving up your email id, you can use the stock screener he has built based on this formula. When I retired, I used this method to re-invest the proceeds from my company 401K (that I had rolled into an IRA). My copy has a copyright date of 2008.

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10 Reasons You’re Broke

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Instead of investing your money in education or your 401K, your money goes to clothes, gadgets, big screen TV’s or alcohol. But there is no way you are going to give up cable, the cell phone, eating out or your gym membership. What is the one thing you are refusing to give up that would help you pay off your debt?

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