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Sustainable Living Traits To Pass On To Your Children

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

With so much turmoil and unease in the world today – political, social/economical, technological, environmental, etc. Participate in local food drives and donations and involve your kids in your actions. This extends to how we observe and react to the world around us. And vice versa!)

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Meet a Reader | Jennifer from Arkansas

The Frugal Girl

We have significant food restrictions so sourcing our own is helpful health-wise & cost-effective too. Now-I’m a single parent who works part-time, cares for my elder mother, homeschools & runs a farm. From my mother: she taught me mostly everything including checkbook balancing, saving, investing, economics, etc.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #236 – May 11, 2012

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The Skilled Investor , Editor Budgeting and Economics Little House presents The Five Tool Budgeter posted at Little House in the Valley , saying, “In baseball, a five-tool player is one who excels in some of the game’s major skills: fielding, base running, hitting for power, hitting for contact, and throwing ability.

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