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Meet a Reader | Mid-Atlantic Julia

The Frugal Girl

I appreciate that she doesn’t sugarcoat things or present a perfect image, but shares real life with us. How did you get interested in saving money? As a teenager, I saved quite a bit of the money I earned babysitting and working in a dining hall. I would probably add it to our savings account for house projects.

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Over 40 and Worried about Money? Start here!

Family Balance Sheet

The cost of college education is crushing and many parents feel compelled to assist or pay for the entire tuition. This leaves not much left to save for retirement. ” Recently Go Banking Rates conducted two studies on savings rates with startling results. of Gen X report they have saves less than $10,000 for retirement.**.

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Do the Rich Use Debt Differently?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Programmers would code a call to DB2 and the software it had would figure out the best way to go get the data and present it back to the program. Now she has much more debt than her education should have cost. Rich people can borrow from their brokerage accounts, typically at lower rates and with less hassle.

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