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Why We Left Traditional Health Insurance

Family Balance Sheet

Health insurance is a touchy subject. Instead I’m writing about my family’s experience with traditional health insurance and how it has affected OUR finances. Let’s start at the beginning: Health insurance wasn’t always so stressful for me and my husband and to begin our story I need to go back a few years.

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4 Financial Lessons Your Parents Forgot to Teach You

Saving Cents With Sense

Unfortunately, navigating the financial world wasn’t on their list of life lessons to impart, leaving you to figure it out by yourself once you’re out on your own. This is especially important if you get a 401K match from your employer, as that’s free money. You avoid a large chunk of deprecation if you purchase used.

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Seven Retirement Lessons Learned

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Health insurance is a bit more pricy than when employed, but less than a lot of other people pay. Now, however, I hear that the company will not consider re-hiring anyone laid off in the first round. However, I haven’t learned this lesson too well, as I still have the second plan, which is a 401K.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #231

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

It’s modeled much like Michael Pollans Food Rules with many one-page rules that give short but useful tidbits of information. I have finally listed many of the financial resources, firms, services, and products that I personally use and recommend. Insurance and Risk. But this is not the same as not “being skilled.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #241 – June 15, 2012

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

” CCS presents Savvy Credit Card Use: Track Your Spending posted at Credit Card Smarts , saying, “A big key to using your credit card wisely is tracking your credit card spending. Thanks to NCR, using your smartphone to make withdrawals at an ATM is on the horizon. Se how you can do this any why you need to.

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