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10 Ideas to Find Cash for Christmas

Family Balance Sheet

The season of family, faith, food, and…shopping… collective sigh… The spending part of Christmas can get crazy, so I’ve come up with a list of ideas to find some extra cash for your Christmas spending if you’re coming up short. January will be one giant nightmare when the credit card bills start rolling in.

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10 Ideas to Find Cash for Christmas

Family Balance Sheet

The season of family, faith, food and…shopping… collective sigh… The spending part of Christmas can get crazy, so I’ve come up with a list of last minute ideas to find some extra cash for your Christmas spending. January will be one giant nightmare when the credit card bills start rolling in. Part-Time Job.

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Graduates – Use Summer to Learn How to Avoid College Fail Points

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

You already have lots of contacts, not only your classmates, but also their parents, siblings and your teachers too. Time to find out. Talk to any alumni you may know (hint parents, cousins, that kid that went off to college last year) to see what they know about it. Keep track of what you have on your monthly card bill.

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7 Steps To Homelessness And What To Do If You Get There

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

She (we will call her Susan, although that is not her name) started life as a member of an industrious lower middle class family – one sibling, two parents married to each other. After a two year marriage, she divorced and came home to live with her parents. Get Laid Off From Work. Her Dad died, and she continued to live with her Mom.

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Designate a Family Office Manager | Marriage & Money

Family Balance Sheet

Even though I was helping my husband from home part-time with his business, I still felt like I wasn’t contributing to our finances and that drove me crazy. The FOM should be the spouse who has the most interest to perform the financial task and doesn’t have to be a stay-at-home parent. Pay bills in a timely manner.

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

Family Balance Sheet

She writes about simple living, parenting and her family’s foster story at Fostering Simplicity. 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! My husband works as an architect and I teach art part time at my son’s school.

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Meet a Reader | Jennifer from Arkansas

The Frugal Girl

I had huge medical bills for the spouse, was only working PRN, and needed new ideas on cutting corners. Those skills/needs became vital in my marriage as the spouse was chronically ill with astronomical medical bills & expensive tastes. Did you ever receive any financial education in school or from your parents?

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