Prairie Eco-Thrifter
OCTOBER 31, 2012
She (we will call her Susan, although that is not her name) started life as a member of an industrious lower middle class family – one sibling, two parents married to each other. Although friends tried to help by offering part time employment, she was unable to keep a paying job. She began to accumulate clutter.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
APRIL 18, 2017
He felt he had to keep it to make sure that I could stay home with the babies and that we had food and shelter. Financial independence is defined by me as ‘not having to work for a living full time’ You don’t have to be a millionaire to have some financial independence. Plus, he felt trapped in the job.
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The Frugal Girl
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
He wants to retire early so he can do more woodworking, electronic fixing, and maybe work at a winery or brewery part-time. I started simply doing free Youtube classes with a Walmart mat. I even cleaned the studio for 6 months in exchange for free classes! Our dog I don’t plan to fully retire, either. But also, yoga.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
We shopped at garage sales, turned down the heat, combined errands to use less gas, didn’t buy a lot of prepared food, cooked at home and the like. Instead of spending his birthday check for $10, my husband put it in savings – every single time. I worked a part time job the weekends he wasn’t working.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
MAY 10, 2012
Beating Broke presents I Quit My Job: Back to Work posted at Beating Broke , saying, “If you’ve been following the I Quit My Job series, you’ll know that I quit my full-time job back in November 2011 and have been working a part-time job and running my websites ever since. Furniture and major appliances are expensive.
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