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7 Ways to Spring Clean Your Finances

Family Balance Sheet

I’m going to be spending the next few weeks giving my family’s finances a good spring cleaning. 7 Ways to Spring Clean Your Finances. As the family office manager of my home, I needed a succinct way to discuss our finances with my husband. Review Your Bills. Bills to review this spring: homeowners insurance.

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Our Family Finances Update: January 2021

Family Balance Sheet

January 2021 was a month of extremes in my family’s finances. Yep, I found a $20 bill last year on the beach! We received a $300 reimbursement from our Aflac supplemental policy for an injury my daughter sustained at volleyball in the fall. This money will go towards paying the actual medical bills from the injury.

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US Presidents and Personal Finance

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Even so his surviving daughter had to live off charity. Grant also did poorly in personal finance. In more recent times, President Truman also did poorly on the personal finance front. Not all of the US presidents were bad at personal finance. Read more about this on Yahoo Finance article The 10 Richest U.S.

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7 Ways to Spring Clean Your Finances

Family Balance Sheet

7 Ways to Spring Clean Your Finances. I developed our family balance sheet years ago when I needed a way to talk to my husband about our finances. Around the time our second daughter was born, I found myself so overwhelmed and distracted that I missed paying the rent for our business office. Review Your Bills.

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5 Lessons Learned When Our Finances Went Awry

Family Balance Sheet

I was reminded that even though August 2013 was a scary time, I learned some valuable lessons and proved to myself that I can make positive changes with regards to my family’s finances. 5 Lessons Learned When Our Finances Went Awry. Do NOT put your head in the sand. Instead, take a deep breath and assess the situation.

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Family Office Manager

Family Balance Sheet

In highly affluent circles, a family office is a private wealth management firm that manages the finances and investments for the ultra-wealthy and their families. While I was still helping my husband from home with his business, I felt like I wasn’t contributing to our finances and that drove me crazy. Project short-term cash needs.

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How We’re Using Upromise to Save for College

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Right before the pandemic started, I opened 529 College Savings Accounts for our daughters. My oldest was in eighth grade and one of my goals for 2020 was to start saving consistently for both daughters’ college education. We want to assist them in financing their college years and we needed to make some progress.

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