Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 14, 2011

FIRE Getters presents Top 5 Ways To Trim Our Grocery Bills! posted at FIRE Finance , saying, “We decided to optimize our grocery expenses and pull the strings on our food budget even tighter. So we spent some time researching on ways to cut down our grocery bill. Here’s how…&#.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Kids usually start asking a lot of questions when they’re 3, 4, and 5 years old, and it’s your job as a parent to answer those questions to the best of your knowledge in an open and honest way. It’s easy for kids to accept gifts from their parents and not realize the amount of money that has gone into them getting that gift.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

With so many things that we parents have to teach our children, from using the potty to being a good and decent citizen, it’s no wonder that financial lessons sometimes get pushed aside in favor of more immediate needs in raising our kids. No, we won’t put that on the credit card and pay for it later.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 26, 2016

Helping the parents teach my grandchildren to save is an ongoing project of mine. Each year I bring them together in my Grandma Rie’s Money Camp and focus on different aspects of personal finance, with saving being a focus in each camp. This was part of my parent’s plan to turn me into a saver. According to US NEWS

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Therefore the last couple days have been spent planning the menu and the groceries. We get a visual picture every month of where are finances are and what we have spent our money on. Consumerism Commentary asks us if we are better off than our parents ? Even now, my parents are in a fantastic financial situation.

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Saving Cents With Sense

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

It’s another late night of trying to juggle the finances and balance the budget. Track all of your checking, savings, credit card and IRA accounts while keeping tabs on our budget. Toshl Finance. Now you don’t even know if you can afford the enormous cup of coffee that it will take to get you started in the morning.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 14, 2012

Since there seems to be so much in the news lately about credit cards- the good ones, the bad ones, the ugly ones, the fee free ones, the reward ones, the secured ones, etc. I figured I would talk about credit cards as today’s theme. Funancials : Should I Cancel My Credit Card? Read away my friends.

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