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The 5 Most Important Personal Finance Lessons to Teach your Child

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Before you get ready to shove those kids of yours out of the nest, here are what I consider to be (based on my experience as a person, a Mom, and a Grandma) the most important things you (or someone) should teach them about personal finance. You wouldn’t want to make a mistake and pay hefty fees. How to manage life activities.

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How To Get Your Budget To Balance

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We all know that one of the best personal finance strategies is to have a budget and you’ve probably tried to create one at some time. Credit Cards. Credit cards are probably the greatest danger to all your best intentions of sticking to your budget. Not Making Adjustments.

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How to Save Money Fast – My Top 20 Tips

Penny Pinchin' Mom

So I would suggest using this method until you have your spending habits under control, and then you can go back to the credit cards. Download Cash Back Apps Remember when I said you were going to need your credit cards at some point? What I do is use my credit cards in conjunction with cash back apps. That is money saved.

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5 Ways to Reduce Your Debt

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

This savings can be directly applied towards your smaller debts such as credit and store cards in order to clear them more quickly. Trying to manage your finances and prioritize on paying off debt is impossible if you don’t keep a proper track of your income and outgoing’s. Don’t hit your limit.

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5 Apps to Help Manage Your Money

Saving Cents With Sense

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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Routines – a Powerful Force for Health and Wealth

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Building a great credit score comes naturally with good financial routines. Paying bills on time, every time is a routine that goes miles towards improving your credit score. Knowing what you have and where you have it helps you track and control your finances. This allows you to avoid hefty overdraft fees.

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Why We Chose Medi-Share, an affordable solution to traditional health insurance

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At the end of 2016, our finances were affected in such a dramatic way by health insurance that my husband and I made a very deliberate decision to leave the traditional model for a very non-traditional and somewhat unknown option: health cost sharing ministry. Credit: Medi-Share. We were basically buying catastrophic insurance.