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The 5 Most Important Personal Finance Lessons to Teach your Child

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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. Here, told as I would tell it to my Grandkids, are my top 5 lessons. How to manage life activities.

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Designate a Family Office Manager | Marriage & Money

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Even though I was helping my husband from home part-time with his business, I still felt like I wasn’t contributing to our finances and that drove me crazy. But chapter 17 helped me realize that I could contribute substantially to our finances–just in a different way. Marriage and Money are joint efforts.

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

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He writes at Debt Discipline about about how his family of 5 deals with money, budgets and debt. I work full time in IT and my wife works part time in retail. Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally? How often do you and your spouse discuss your finances/budget/spending?

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Find out how Jessica & Her Husband Paid off $175,000 of Debt

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Along our part-time business my husband is a senior web designer for Ramsey Solutions aka Dave Ramsey. We live a pretty busy lives and when given free weekends at home we love spending time at home on our little farm. Both are equally important and both need to be heard and respected in our finances.

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Revenge Spending and Other Married Money Tricks

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Yet newlyweds as well as long time married folks may not even be aware of some of the money tricks they or their spouse could be using. Here are a couple to watch for and deal with. It can start simply with an offer to balance the checkbook or simplify the finances by consolidating everything (into their account).

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Find out How Acadia & Her Husband Paid off $97,000 in Student Loans

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My husband works as an architect and I teach art part time at my son’s school. This may seem like a strange answer to put in this section, but we believe in helping others when they are struggling and putting our finances towards caring for our community and others around the world. We strive to be a pretty active family.

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How to Graduate College Without Being Broke

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It’s well within a college student’s ability to start saving money while they’re still getting a degree, and to graduate with a firm grasp on their finances and an idea of how to succeed going forward. Happily, that’s not the case. All it takes is some common sense. First things first: Be smart about credit.

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