Family Balance Sheet

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Have a large extended family that buys gifts f or everyone ? They want to celebrate Christmas with their families, but feel pressure to buy gifts for everyone, and often, they simply can’t afford it. Instead of buying gifts for EVERYONE, each participating person brings just one gift.

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Games Christmas Gifts Family 100

Family Balance Sheet

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

We received the information about our family in October, so I took advantage of the holiday sales to buy the gifts and food. The family that we “adopted” was a grandmother (I will call her Tanya, but not her real name) and her 3 grandkids. Today I want to share with you our experience last year that brought me to my knees.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 19, 2013

In Huffington Post article Boomers Give New Meaning To Spoiling The Grandkids author Linda Stern reported: “Roughly 36 percent of the grandparents surveyed by AARP said “spoiling (grand)children by buying them too much” was a part of a grandparent’s financial role.”. Our kids need the help.

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Grandchildren Grandkids Kids and Family Parenting 220

For the Mommas

MARCH 11, 2014

Fleeing her picture-perfect marriage among the privileged set of Brentwood and the wreckage of a failed marriage, Lily Parkins decides to move to the only place that still holds happy memories, her grandmother’s old farmhouse. Her grandmother has passed away, leaving the Madrona Island Bed & Breakfast Inn to Lily.

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