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Start Planning and Budgeting for Summer TODAY!

Family Balance Sheet

As a family, we are looking forward to camping trips, a week at the beach, and cookouts with friends. It’s a helpful visual for everyone in my family as we anticipate our summer fun. How much is summer going to cost you and your family? After a long winter, are you dreaming of blue skies and sunny days?

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20 Fun (& Budget-Friendly) Christmas Activities

Family Balance Sheet

It is so easy for the month to get lost in the commercialism and the frenzied pace and while it is fun to receive a gift, my husband and I want the month to be focused on our faith and our family. This month, don’t forget to slow down, create memories and traditions, and most of all enjoy the season with your family.

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Summer Fun Guide 2019

Family Balance Sheet

As a family, we are looking forward to camping trips and a week at the beach. We bought the family a summer pass to Hersheypark for a Christmas gift, something we’ve never done before. We bought the family a summer pass to Hersheypark for a Christmas gift, something we’ve never done before. Need some summer cash?

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Christmas in July

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I have always thought that “Christmas in July was a catch phrase made up by department stores to sell things in the slow summer months. . Start talking to family/friends/others about gift exchanges – does everyone really need to buy everyone else a gift? Does this happen in your family too?

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10 Ways to Find Cash for your Summer Vacation

Family Balance Sheet

Doesn’t a break from your daily schedule to get away and spend quality time with your family sound amazing? Every summer we take a week to focus on our girls, fitness, good food and spending time with our extended family that we vacation with. A friend makes extra money teaching piano. Is the cost holding you back?

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Meet Amanda & Daniel. They Paid Off $68,000 in Debt in 8 Months.

Family Balance Sheet

Tell us about you and your family. We have 3 children who are 7, 5, and 3 in age. We realized that we wanted to travel as a family and the only thing keeping us from seeing the world was money. We have led 7 sessions of Financial Peace University mostly to keep ourselves motivated. Where are you from?

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News You Can Use | Nov 8, 2013

Family Balance Sheet

For our Gluten-Free friends, check out Jo-Lynne’s {Gluten-Free} Thanksgiving Recipe Round-Up. Or if you do a lot of online shopping elsewhere, read 8 Easy Ways to Score FREE Shippping for the Holidays via Market Watch. Thank you for supporting Family Balance Sheet! via My Crossfit Paleo Journey. affiliate link).

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