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Time Is Money. Or Is It?

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If time is money, then people who work more hours should make more money. Time is only money if that’s how you chose to structure your income, around an hourly rate. It’s making that sale or that booking that brings in the income. This is a principle freelancers and business owners live by.

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How to Make Good Financial Decisions

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To get ahead in life, you need to make more good decisions than bad. Good decisions can result in your ability to get a better job, make more money, save more money, invest for gain and other steps that help you end up in financial plus land. Researching your options. Sleeping on your choice.

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Money and Marriage – How To Get And Stay On The Same Track and $999.99 Giveaway

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To really understand your money approach and attitude, ask yourself and each other open ended money questions – about how your folks dealt with money, how you were raised, what you prefer and don’t prefer financially and etc. These were questions such as ” Which of your parents made the financial decisions”.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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Dave Ramsey suggests in his book, The Total Money Makeover , that you create a starter emergency fund of $1000. Yard sales take some work, but you can declutter your house and make some cash in the same weekend. 24 – Become a book flipper. There are online sites that will buy books. 25 – Start a blog.

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

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We knew that we would make more money but we wanted to be able to buy a house with a conventional mortgage and we can’t come up with the down payment so we need to ratchet down. We looked around and saw people making 4x what we made, but they were upside down too… So we said there has to be a better way.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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Dave Ramsey suggests in his book, The Total Money Makeover (affiliate link) , that you create a starter emergency fund of $1000. If you have some bigger items, you will likely make more money selling them on Craigslist or your local Facebook sale page than at a yard sale. 1 – Determine how much you need.