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Where is Your Money Going? | 31 Days to Organize Your Finances

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Welcome to 31 Days to Organize Your Finances. To begin, gather all of your recent bills, receipts, checking & savings account statement, and/or credit card statements. If you are not organized enough to have kept receipts or statements for all of your spending, tally up what you have.

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Create a Gift Giving Fund | 31 Days to Organize Your Finances

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Welcome to 31 Days to Organize Your Finances. If possible, set the money aside in a separate savings account earmarked specifically for gift spending. If you haven’t started saving for this upcoming Christmas, you will need to scramble to find that money NOW, so you won’t feel compelled to use a credit card.

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How We Frugal-ed in June 2023

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2 – We opened up high-interest savings accounts and earned $250 in interest. We are in what I call our “shovel season of life” Our oldest daughter leaves for college in the fall of 2024 and we have a big savings goal to hit before then. 4 – Credit Card Rewards – $241.78

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How I Organize My Paper Files and Filing Cabinet

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Instead I've kept the cabinet organized and up to date. I've organized all of our major categories and then I use sub-files within each cateogry. Major Category: Insurance - My sub-files are Auto, Health, Health Savings Account, Home-Owners, Life. It has saved us time and our sanity. Thanks, Celia!

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Create an Emergency Fund | 31 Days to Organize Your Finances

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Welcome to 31 Days to Organize Your Finances. Both instances could have brought us down and we could have reached for a credit card, but thankfully, my husband and I are pretty adamant about having an emergency fund and I want you to become adamant about having one too. An emergency fund is not a spending account.

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How to Create a Family Balance Sheet + Get a FREE one for your family!

Family Balance Sheet

I’m a firm believer that finances must be organized and neat, and a Family Balance Sheet helps you keep track of your finances in one tidy spreadsheet. You’ll know how much is in your checking and savings accounts and your retirement accounts. The amount you need to save to get to your target.

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Keeping it Simple: Strategies for Financial Security

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This means that you put off getting things organized and putting things off never works, as we all know too well! Wouldn’t it be much simpler if you only had a few accounts, maybe a working account and one or two savings accounts? Reduce Your Credit Cards Ouch! This really is saving made simple!

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