Family Balance Sheet

AUGUST 11, 2016

” Recently Go Banking Rates conducted two studies on savings rates with startling results. Use my Family Balance Sheet excel spreadsheet to help you organize your finances. Start Saving for your Emergency Fund TODAY! That emergency fund saved our business, our sanity, and our marriage. Where We Stand.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 16, 2014

Traditional investment advice says that you shouldn’t invest in the market until you are financially stable, have an emergency fund and have taken care of other basics, such as insurance of all kinds, debt removal and etc. If you don’t have any stock market investments, how can you get in on the action?

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 10, 2014

Building a budget or a spending plan around what’s most important to you, at your very core , means that you are far more likely to stick with the current plan. But I also have bills to pay and it’s important to buy healthy foods for my family to eat. First of all, it helps to identify your core values. must be paid.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Over the weekend, during a family visit, I had a conversation with one of my nephews – a thirty something husband, father and CFO of a small company. He and his family currently live in a home in a suburban subdivision. Family and friend investors. Stock market investors. Lenders who invest.

Real Estate 100

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 20, 2014

It’s one thing to have a couple thousand dollars in an emergency fund. It’s quite another to let a few thousand dollars (or even more) sit in a low-yield bank account that doesn’t serve much of a purpose. You could flip a house, or buy a multi-family complex and rent out the units. Invest that Money.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Make a list of all of the family and friends you buy for and how much you usually spend. If you have the time, you can open a Swagbucks account and search the internet for points that can be traded in for gift cards, or you can take advantage of bank cash bonus offers if you open a credit card or checking account.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 26, 2016

To learn to live within your means is one of our primary family money values. Both are now old enough to open a bank savings account. I would go into the bank with my stubby little hands clutching my months worth of allowance (total of $1), deposit it and see the results right off printed in my book. Back then I had a passbook.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

One way to do this in a two income family is to live off of one income and bank the other. We have enough to live on from other sources and an emergency fund. You don’t have to make hundreds of thousands of dollars, you just have to have some money left over after taking care of your obligations. We did that.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 22, 2012

I’m half expecting all my friends and family to show up at my house and have an intervention, in an attempt to get my love of finance blogs under control. They’re great at giving advice on stuff like frugality, extra income, budgets and emergency funds, but most lack in the area of investments.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Kristen from My Dollar Plan reminds us Why You Should Tell Your Family About Your Debt. I know our families all talk pretty open about money issues so that we can help and support each other. I know our families all talk pretty open about money issues so that we can help and support each other. I totally agree.

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Penny Pinchin' Mom

MARCH 11, 2024

Whether you are looking to save extra money for your emergency fund and potential unexpected expense, a new kitchen, or your kids’ college tuition—you name it—you will require self-discipline and a plan to reach any financial goal. It’s an actual need. There’s just no way around it. Here’s what I did at first.

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