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How Growing Your Finances Is Like Gardening

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you were to buy one of each kind of plant in the spring catalog (like every kind of rose bush offered), you will have a lot of competition in your landscape between the various plants – not only for ground, sun and water, but also for your time, knowledge and attention. Discuss and agree on financial goals within your family.

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Find out how Richard paid off $40,000 of debt

Family Balance Sheet

Firstly, I was offered a better-paid job but needed a vehicle to get there, so I took out a loan to buy one. It was getting to the point that as soon as I got paid, covered my monthly bills and made the required debt repayments my bank account was back to zero again. This was further compounded by a number of other situations.

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