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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. Money Tips'

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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. I love this list. It is so practical.

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

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I like to use my bi-weekly mortgage payments as an example of this. The reason for having these measures is to prevent me from having to constantly fiddle with some of my automatic transfers to my emergency fund, retirement account, and quarterly estimated tax fund. Money Tips' Timing Matters in Finances.

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Yakezie Carnival October 16, 2011- Growth Edition

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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. You will learn exactly what settings, plugins, and themes he uses. This post shows highlights how much you can earn before you need to pay tax.

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Yakezie Carnival November 13, 2011- November Edition

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He discusses income beneficiaries, remainder beneficiaries and provides and example of the use of a dynasty trust. Money Q & A: Top Ten Money Questions People Always Ask – Find out the most popular questions that people are always asking me. Today I’m going to talk about getting those emergency funds going.

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

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emergency fund, so we started throwing what little extra we had straight. We committed to using a cash budget, and we talked daily at. first about any money that was spent. When the second loan was paid off, we used everything to go towards. came up that day that made us need to tweak some of our other budget.

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

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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. We also continued using debit and credit cards (paid in full multiple times per month) for the convenience of tracking our expenses online.

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