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Alternatives to College

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

She rents a space in a salon, managing her own client base, collecting her own fees, obtaining her own supplies, providing her own training and etc. Of course, she has spent a long time building up her client base – which she did by starting out working at one of the mall salons.

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What Has Your Money Done for You Lately?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

You could flip a house, or buy a multi-family complex and rent out the units. Perhaps you don’t have a ton of money to invest, but you could buy some dividend stocks and start building your income portfolio. Do you have enough money to buy an investment property?

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Carnival of Personal Finance #316- Family Edition

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Tim from How to Make Bankable Savings discusses Buy Versus Rent: Non-Financial Considerations are Ke y The decision to buy or rent your home involves more than a financial analysis. Mike from The Dividend Guy Blog tells How To Build A Solid Dividend Retirement Portfolio. “The family is a haven in a heartless world.&#.

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How this Couple Eliminated $180,000 of Debt in 12 Months!

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Renting, not having super nice furniture or cars, having mismatched dishes and bedding. Here I was, leaning against his $20,000 truck, while my $15,000 car is sitting in the drive way of our $150,000 house, and through all this our 8 month old son was sleeping in his $400 crib, and I didn’t have $20 bucks of my own money to get gas.

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Meet a Reader | Kim from Iowa

The Frugal Girl

We rented the scaffolding for $50 from Menards so I could finish this massive painting project. My son has a job at a local pizza place and he gets a free meal after every shift. My younger son and I have been volunteering there lately and the need seems to be growing more and more. One of four nightstands we made!

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Meet a Reader | Biker Liz

The Frugal Girl

My degree is in mechanical engineering, but I’m just starting a transition to nursing – before I got pregnant with my son, I was working as a nursing assistant while my husband finished grad school, and planning to go on to nursing school. I’d worked in that job for 18 months before returning to engineering.

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

Our son is 29 and biological. When they got married, they bought a duplex so that the rent money from the tenant in the upstairs apartment would pay the mortgage. We lived off my salary and banked Alan’s even before we were married so that we could build our own house (literally), paying cash as we went.