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For Better Savings: Use Sub Accounts to Differentiate Your Goals

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It’s fun to watch your account grow, but at the same time, if you have different goals for the money, having everything in one account can be problematic, since you aren’t able to identify which money is earmarked for a specific goal. Chances are that you are saving for different purposes. Break Out Your Objectives.

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Carnival of Personal Finance #384 – Time for a Laugh Edition

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Editors Picks: Big Cajun Man from THE Canadian Personal Finance Site shares 10 Phrases I have Used to Save Money. Really, we should all carry a cue card in a our wallet that we can just whip out and use anytime we have an opportunity to save money. Read and learn how to save some money.”

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Do You Have an Income Problem? Or a Cash Flow Problem?

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In many cases, it’s not about how much we have coming in; it’s more about when the money arrives and leaves. However, I also know that I don’t know exactly when the money will arrive (we have yet to figure out the summer payment schedule for adjuncts at this particular university). Money Tips'

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Yakezie Carnival October 16, 2011- Growth Edition

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Money Cone: 9 Impulse Buys that Turned Out Better than Expected We’ve all bought stuff based on commercials that turned out nothing like how it was advertised. Live Real, Now: Make Extra Money, Part 6: Setting Up a Site In this installment of the Make Extra Money series, LRN is going to show you how to set up a WordPress site.

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Yakezie Carnival November 13, 2011- November Edition

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My University Money: Should I Pursue a Co-op Education? Money Beagle: Why You Should Write Your Personal Finance Executive Summary Today – Working with a clearly defined objective is key to financial success. Invest It Wisely: When Can You Talk about How Much Money You Make? There were 56 submissions this week.

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How Krystal and Josh paid off $80k in 4 years!

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When my husband and I got married, we were making hardly any money. full-time so we started bringing in a decent amount of money. we still weren’t making enough money to cover all of our monthly bills. emergency fund, so we started throwing what little extra we had straight. the money was gone, it was gone.

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Shannon & Her Husband Paid off $22,000 in 9 Months

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I finally got inspired that we should at least start working on this huge goal of being debt free when I read Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover. I wasn’t comfortable keeping only $1,000 in an emergency fund with two little ones and just one income, so we didn’t follow that part of his plan.

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