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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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Seven Retirement Lessons Learned

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Then the Great Recession hit so I postponed for a few years. In 2010, my company was just preparing to do their first round of recession related layoffs. However, I haven’t learned this lesson too well, as I still have the second plan, which is a 401K. We have always wanted to give our kids a leg up in the world.