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Seven Retirement Lessons Learned

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

When I was preparing to retire, I tried to go part time – but my company wasn’t willing to fill my spot with a part-timer. Our alternate income streams include an inherited IRA, real estate rental income and dividends/interest from investments. Then the Great Recession hit so I postponed for a few years.

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7 Steps To Homelessness And What To Do If You Get There

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

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.

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

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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. MR presents Is Now The Time To Buy Real Estate?

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