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Revenge Spending and Other Married Money Tricks

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Better to talk through the whys and wheretofors of your revenge spends to get to the bottom of the cause than to drain your bank accounts or wreck your credit with the spends. Spouses used to use secret overseas bank accounts to hide money from each other prior to a divorce split up. Watch for these other money tricks.

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How to Graduate College Without Being Broke

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Everyone wants a short cut to wealth, and everyone seems convinced that there’s a great mystery surrounding financial stability and that only the most dedicated among us can escape college with our bank accounts intact. Happily, that’s not the case.

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FREE Kindle Books: Making Kids Smile, Shooting Landscapes And More

For the Mommas

Follow these step by step instructions and you will have your own Children’s Entertainment, Balloon Twisting, Magic show, Face painting complete business — Making Kids Smile, and making yourself smile as well, with all the extra profits you will be making part-time or full -time. Download: Making Kids Smile!

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The 5 Most Important Personal Finance Lessons to Teach your Child

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Prepare for getting into the ones you think you might want to attend – by studying the right subjects, participating in the right activities and working the right kinds of part time or summer jobs. You need to be able to balance savings and investment accounts back to what the bank or financial institution thinks you have.

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Yes Virginia, There is a Money Tree

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Earning a sub-poverty-level income for decades as a Catholic priest, he focused on his investments in his free time, and was worth nearly $1 million when he died. This 102-year-old former part-time janitor and dry cleaner left $2.3 One way to do this in a two income family is to live off of one income and bank the other.

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Find out How Drew & Farrah Paid off $200k of debt, including their HOME

Family Balance Sheet

Drew works full time for Department of Defense. Farrah works part time for Department of Defense. Promotions, new jobs, side work, selling stuff, etc etc… All the time we kept the same cost of living and just banked and smacked the debt in the face. We went to our bank and wrote the last check IN PERSON.

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Find out How Acadia & Her Husband Paid off $97,000 in Student Loans

Family Balance Sheet

My husband works as an architect and I teach art part time at my son’s school. We must have the money in the bank for every purchase. We have a 5 year old son and are in the process of adopting our 2 year old and 4 month old foster sons, making us parents of 3 boys! We strive to be a pretty active family. Give to others.

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