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Rent-to-Own Homes: A Way to Make a Home Sale Work

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

A buyer who could easily make the loan payments is often unable to afford the large down payment lenders currently demand. Rent-to-own is a way to make a property transaction work without a lender involved at the start. But both the buyer and seller can protect themselves by researching market value trends in the neighborhood.

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Should You Spend Your Money on Home Re-Decorating?

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Have you ever shopped at neighborhood garage sales? Others are perhaps trying to keep up with the Jones by staying current with all the latest trends. From what I can see here there is a lot of desire to follow trends and show off the wonderful success.” Trends come and go. ” What is the cost?

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Stuff – Full Circle

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

All my life, others have tried to make me feel guilty about stuff – guilty about not having enough stuff, guilty about not having the right stuff, guilty about having too much stuff, guilty about spending too much money on stuff or not spending enough on stuff, and guilty about throwing stuff away. You donate to suitable charities.

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Learn to Negotiate Better Prices

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We should convince ourselves that it is OK and that it doesn’t make us look cheap or bad. Although our citizens don’t practice the very visible haggling over every item for sale that I saw on that Mexican vacation, I believe we are seeing a trend toward more price negotiation in the U.S.A. No Good Role Models.

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Save Money and Go Green By Replacing These Disposable Items with Reusable Ones

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you’d like to take an easy step to go green and save money in the process, the first place to make changes is in buying disposable items. If you’d like to make the switch from paper napkins, consider going to cloth napkins. You can often by these cheap at garage sales. Disposable Kitchen Items.

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Yakezie Carnival – Credit Cards Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

This is not something I want to see, so today I have a few videos for you that will dispell credit card myths, teach you how to use them properly, how to keep them safe, and how to make sure you should be getting credit in the first place. The only investing strategy that makes sense to me is buy and hold. Take a moment to watch them.