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Kindergarten to College – Back to School Money Tips

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Not many – but by planning ahead now you might find ways to lessen the expenses you will face next month and use the annual experience as a teachable moment in your child’s personal finance education. If you know you are going to want to have a tutor for your child this year, use a college tutor. What a deal.

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Avoid These Financial Mistakes with Your Kids

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Agree on the values and expectations you want your children to have in the area of personal finance and consistently teach and enforce those between the two of you (and clue in any significant others in your family such as aunts, uncles, grandparents and etc). Derailing them with sudden windfalls. Money Tips'

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Create your debt freedom plan

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We didn’t carry over credit card balances, we paid off our car notes early, and the interest rate on the student loan was at a low 2.75%. A student loan? Our personal finances are so interwoven with our small business finances that we view them as one. We thought we were doing really well. That’s a necessity.

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Our Debt Freedom Plan | Marriage & Money

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We didn’t have credit card debt, we paid off our car notes early, and the interest rate on the student loan was at a low 2.75%, so we thought we were doing okay. A student loan? But I personally don’t want to be any body’s slave and the total debt payment we make every month is astounding. A business loan?

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #231

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From the days when front-running involved actual running to the “Victorian Internet era” brought on by telegraphy, we can learn a great deal from looking back at a simpler era.” Justin presents Know the Common Mistakes with Your Personal Finances posted at Budget Snob , saying, “Many people make the same financial mistakes.

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Find out how Maureen Paid off $79,540 in Credit Card & Student Loan Debt

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Besides writing on my personal finance blog, A Debt Free Stress Free Life, I’m an adjunct professor at a local college and own a residential and commercial cleaning business. in student loan debt that was a combination of my master’s degree and my daughters undergraduate degree. How much debt did you pay off?

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Yakezie Carnival – Credit Cards Edition

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After that, while you all primed and interested in personal finance, continue and read the awesome articles that were written across the web this week regarding personal finance and enhancing your lifestyle. Newlyweds on a Budget : Paying down student loans – The following is a guest post.