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4 Financial Lessons Your Parents Forgot to Teach You

Saving Cents With Sense

Your parents did a great job at keeping you fed, clothed, sheltered, and teaching right from wrong. Don’t Compare Your Living Situation to Your Parents. Your parents, especially if they are baby boomers, grew up in a vibrant economy that afforded them many advantages. Car Buying. All rights reserved.

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What Makes a Saver?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

A smile or a word from a parent or teacher, seeing someone enjoying their savings, a chance combination of a happy conversation, a sun shiny day and an increased amount in the piggy bank – all may result in one child’s brain being wired towards the pleasure of saving.

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Money and Life in Your Forties

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Behind you are years and years of mastering the skills associated with your growing body; learning how to behave to get along in your society; hour upon hour in school being educated; days and months of becoming proficient in a trade or career; and seemingly endless hours of practical life experience at parenting and a myriad of other functions.

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Carnival of Personal Finance #316- Family Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

This past weekend I headed out west with my husband, brother, and his girlfriend to help my parents move into their new house. Crystal from Stupid Cents talks 401k Allocation and where to put your money. “The best inheritance a parent can give to their children is a few minutes of their time each day.&#.

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Yakezie Carnival October 16, 2011- Growth Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Squirrelers: 7 Ways to Safeguard Your Children’s Financial Future If you’re a parent (or hope to be one someday), you’re not only responsible for your own finances, but for providing for the basic needs of your children. This list provides an overview of steps that can be taken.

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Why We Left Traditional Health Insurance

Family Balance Sheet

In October 2003, I left a career as a department store buyer with a nice paycheck, paid vacation days, 401k match, profit sharing, and health benefits, to pursue a life of self employment with my husband where all of those things are up to us. I can’t believe it’s been that long.

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What Can Go Wrong – Naming a Beneficiary

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Being the smart person you are, you you sign up for a 401K with company matching and do the right thing by starting to pump as much into it as possible. In 5 years – you’ve married and had a baby, but your 401k still goes to Mom and Dad when you die.