Prairie Eco-Thrifter
JANUARY 1, 2013
A financial advisor told me recently that the thing that really made him upset was that nearly every new client he spoke to was making the same disastrous personal finance mistakes. So let’s look at the most common personal finance mistakes and what you can do to prevent or fix them. That was me, at any rate.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
AUGUST 19, 2012
Keep just 1 or 2 cards for occasional use; leave them at home when you go shopping so you aren’t tempted to impulse buy. Change Your Behaviour It has been said that personal finance is 20% knowledge and 80% behavior. Learning how to handle money well is a vital strategy for avoiding financial disaster.
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Prairie Eco-Thrifter
FEBRUARY 19, 2013
We all know that one of the best personal finance strategies is to have a budget and you’ve probably tried to create one at some time. Maybe you’re like me and could never get the budget to balance; I always had more expenditure than income and couldn’t see how I was going to be able to cut expenses. Not Making Adjustments.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
OCTOBER 4, 2012
During weekends and family days, you can set-up some fun activities at home to lessen the expenses. 8 Ways to Save Money on Groceries Without Coupons Over my many years of environmental and personal finance writing, one of the most common things I get asked for. It is not the location that matters but the company.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
MARCH 28, 2013
Explain how you are paying for the item, how the money flows from your bank to your account to the seller and how the site takes it’s cut. Show how the items get listed (perhaps even listing a toy or some object of theirs to sell) and how to tell how many viewers and watchers and bidders there are.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
DECEMBER 1, 2011
Many thanks to My Personal Finance Journey for including my post, Why Donations to Charity Are Important in the Carnival of Personal Finance #337 . Also, thanks to Canadian Finance Blog for including my post, How to Establish an Eco-Friendly Lifestyle at Home in Canadian Finance Carnival #64.
Family Balance Sheet
FEBRUARY 19, 2022
While Susan did not work outside of the home, she treated her role as the family office manager as a job and helped her family achieve financial independence over the course of her marriage. I read this book around the same time that I became a mother and left the full-time workforce to stay at home with our new baby.
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