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Money Matters: How to Prepare Your Finances for a Recession

Motherhood Moments

Maliga shares several ways to prepare for a recession: Prepare a bare bones budget. Prepare ahead of time and create a bare bones budget that includes only your essentials — think food, shelter, clothes, transportation and insurance — so you have a plan in the event that you experience a loss of income or need to cut expenses suddenly.

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Introducing: Family Budget Spreadsheets

Family Balance Sheet

I’ve been working behind the scenes on a tool that I personally use to track and organize our finances: Family Budget Spreadsheets. This package of 9 Microsoft Excel spreadsheets is designed to help you organize your finances, plan for major purchases, create a budget, understand your cash flow, and track your net worth.

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New Budgeting Tool from Dave Ramsey: My Christmas Budget!

Couponing 101

Need help planning your finances this holiday shopping season? Dave Ramsey is offering a FREE new budgeting tool called My Christmas Budget ! More than a simple budgeting tool, My Christmas Budget will help you get and stay organized for this season’s Christmas shopping. Thanks, Money Saving Mom !

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LearnVest: FREE Personalized Budget Tool

Couponing 101

Need a little help getting your finances on track and sticking to your budget? Sign up for LearnVest and you’ll get access to a FREE personalized budget tool that helps you figure out a budget you can actually stick with. LearnVest: FREE Personalized Budget Tool is a post from Couponing 101.

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LearnVest: Free Personalized Budget Tool

Couponing 101

Need a little help getting your finances back on track and sticking to your budget? Right now, they are also offering a cool Create A Budget tool that helps you figure out a budget you can actually stick with. LearnVest: Free Personalized Budget Tool is a post from Couponing 101.

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A Sweeter Way to Cook Your Budget

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I like to bake cookies, and I like to budget. I treated the baking process like it was an end in itself and not a tool to get what I wanted. I’ve failed at many budgets this way. If you Google how to make a budget, you’ll find the same boilerplate list of steps on thousands of sites. So, how do you manage your finances?

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Budgeting for Life

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

My husband and I live within our means and budget and hope our children will learn from example. It’s vastly important to us that our children are given the tools to learn about fiscal responsibility for themselves. We’ve put forth a strong effort to ensure such valuable tools have been made available to our children.

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