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Graduates – Use Summer to Learn How to Avoid College Fail Points

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If you are going on to college in the fall, don’t let summer roll by without doing some preparation work to help you avoid typical college fail points. Time to find out. Talk to any alumni you may know (hint parents, cousins, that kid that went off to college last year) to see what they know about it.

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Meet a Reader | Midwest Andrea

The Frugal Girl

I’ve since spent much time going through the archives. I got into minimalist content in high school, and somehow found Dave Ramey through there just before I went to college. He wants to retire early so he can do more woodworking, electronic fixing, and maybe work at a winery or brewery part-time.

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Designate a Family Office Manager | Marriage & Money

Family Balance Sheet

If you get a chance, find this book at your library and read it, especially that chapter. I read Millionaire Women Next Door around the same time that I became a mother and left the full-time work force to stay at home with our new baby. Manage long term savings, such as retirement, college savings.

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

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Her dream of becoming a college professor died when her dissertation was not accepted and she did not win the doctorate. Although friends tried to help by offering part time employment, she was unable to keep a paying job. Sink Into Depression. After a two year marriage, she divorced and came home to live with her parents.

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Meet a Reader | Jennifer from Arkansas

The Frugal Girl

When my daddy passed last January, I inherited all the heavy farm labor responsibilities- I never knew I could have impressive muscles😊 It feels like I’ve been going to a homesteading college this year, it’s a love/hate relationship. Now-I’m a single parent who works part-time, cares for my elder mother, homeschools & runs a farm.

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How Krystal and Josh paid off $80k in 4 years!

Family Balance Sheet

works in outbound sales, and I teach part-time. savings for college for our girls. Or rent it from the library. My name is Krystal and my husband is Josh. We live in Richmond, Virginia, and have two of the best girls: McKayla, 10, and Shayne, 6. My husband. We have always been very. But we do love. with my youth group.

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

Box are some of my favorite authors) and I use the library to borrow both regular books and electronic resources. A few years back, I hit my all-time high by borrowing 126 books over the course of one year. My dad was a blue-collar worker – a machine operator on the railroad who sometimes got laid off for periods of time in the winter.