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Back to school shopping

Saving SAHM Sanity

This September I'll be a full time college student (taking all of four classes) My other half has also decided that he would like to go back to school and will be in college as well. My son is going into the 1st grade and his school supply list has over 60 items on it! Seriously, where did the summer go?

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

I’m fifty years old, married almost 25 years, with four sons of various ages ranging from all grown up to still-working-on-it. ? For 20 or so years I’ve been homeschooling my kids, and am now down to about 1 1/2 (one full-time homeschooler, and one doing College Credit Plus with some support).

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Meet a Reader | Biker Liz

The Frugal Girl

My degree is in mechanical engineering, but I’m just starting a transition to nursing – before I got pregnant with my son, I was working as a nursing assistant while my husband finished grad school, and planning to go on to nursing school. They had me, and then my mom decided to go back to school full-time and get a PhD.

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Find out How Brian & His Wife Paid off $109,000 in Credit Card Debt

Family Balance Sheet

We’re a family of five, including, me, my wife and 3 children: 15 year old fraternal twins and a 12 year old son. I work full time in IT and my wife works part time in retail. We are now building wealth and would like to help our 3 children fund college if that’s the path they choose. What are your hobbies? .

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A clean-the-inbox Q&A

The Frugal Girl

My son & I currently share a plan and I know that there has to be a comparable plan that would be less expensive than AT&T. As far as Christmas stuff I do now…well, last Christmas and this Christmas, I’m in single mom and full-time college student mode.

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

Our son is 29 and biological. I learned from the best, but I believe that a personal finance course should be a requirement for both high school and college graduation. My biggest financial regret is the amount of money we spent on restaurant meals from the time we were married and both working full time to when we had kids.

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Gender Inequality in 2014

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Forbes reported: ”According to new numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2012 full-time employed women earned just 80.9% of the salaries their male counterparts did, down more than a full percentage point from 2011 when the number hovered over 82%.” We earn less than the guys. We still wear stilettos.

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