Prairie Eco-Thrifter
MAY 12, 2014
TD Bank If you have one in your area, this is a great program! Kids read 10 books during the summer, fill out the form, take the form to the nearest TD Bank, open an account, and TD Bank will deposit $10! Call your local bank to make sure they are participating in 2014.). They can redeem the points for online prizes.
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 22, 2024
I’m fifty years old, married almost 25 years, with four sons of various ages ranging from all grown up to still-working-on-it. ? an illustration I did for one of my son’s books. We rent now and are much happier. Today we’re meeting a reader who is an artist, a homeschooler, a boy-mom, and a renter by choice.
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Prairie Eco-Thrifter
MAY 20, 2014
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. Do you have enough money to buy an investment property?
Saving Everyday
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
The first thing I do every morning is make coffee, sit down at my desk, open my budget spreadsheet, log into the bank, and enter anything that came out overnight plus what we spent the previous day. For one-time projects, consider renting. Keeping track of your money is crucial. It takes five minutes! Negotiate your bills.
Family Balance Sheet
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
Renting, not having super nice furniture or cars, having mismatched dishes and bedding. Knowing our bank account was empty, I was hoping that one of our maxed out credit cards would have enough room to get him $20 bucks worth of gas to get him to work the next day. We completely started over. We stopped buying stuff.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
JULY 4, 2011
Tim from How to Make Bankable Savings discusses Buy Versus Rent: Non-Financial Considerations are Ke y The decision to buy or rent your home involves more than a financial analysis. Money Beagle from Money Beagle shares Our Son’s First Money Lesson , and says, “You can never start too early!&# I totally agree.
The Frugal Girl
MARCH 4, 2024
Our son is 29 and biological. When they got married, they bought a duplex so that the rent money from the tenant in the upstairs apartment would pay the mortgage. We lived off my salary and banked Alan’s even before we were married so that we could build our own house (literally), paying cash as we went.
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