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Unintended Consequences

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In the annual meeting, the members have to approve the budget for the year, which included the staining, a $60 a month increase in fees and no improvement projects. These members also never look at the budget, and didn’t initially understand that their pet projects weren’t in it. Don’t you hate politics!

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Yakezie Carnival October 16, 2011- Growth Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Through understanding psychology, one can predict how other investors will react to certain market events. Our Journey To Zero: Get To Know Old People and Save Money Great deals can be found in the most surprising of places, like from old people and funeral homes. Family Money Values: Who Manages Your Money? So what did they do?

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Find out how Richard paid off $40,000 of debt

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Personally I believe that getting out of debt is as much about psychology as it is about systems and processes. Short Term Wins – Reducing the outstanding debt in exchange for larger upfront payments sounds great – but then you need to find the money for such a deal! There were a number of things I tried.

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