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The Christmas Gift Exchange Game

Family Balance Sheet

Does it cause stress and overwhelm to your sanity and your budget? Family budgets can get strained this time of year, and this pressure to make other family members happy ends up making some people really stressed. Gifts of food/baked goods. Have a large extended family that buys gifts f or everyone ? Start by choosing a theme.

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Brussels / Belgium attacks -The Awful Event that happened

Coupons Do Work

As you all know, I run a couponing / budgeting site. The culture, the food, the people — and the beer and chocolate was soo yummy! The politics was also fun to get to know. One thing about Belgium, protests happen often and they are peaceful. Give Peace A Chance ! it was awful. I used to live in Belgium. I have been there!

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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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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #236 – May 11, 2012

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The Skilled Investor , Editor Budgeting and Economics Little House presents The Five Tool Budgeter posted at Little House in the Valley , saying, “In baseball, a five-tool player is one who excels in some of the game’s major skills: fielding, base running, hitting for power, hitting for contact, and throwing ability.

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