Prairie Eco-Thrifter
JUNE 11, 2014
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. I do this with my emergency fund. Break Out Your Objectives. Money Tips'
Family Balance Sheet
JULY 10, 2023
When my husband hung a smart TV in the sunroom back in April, we started spending more time in the room–even our teenage daughters started hanging out with us. However, we all agreed that the existing furniture was not comfortable, especially to watch movies. In total, we have made $250 in interest since April.
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Prairie Eco-Thrifter
MARCH 14, 2013
Now is the time to watch every penny that you spend, so that you can purchase more in the same budget or even better, put that money in emergency funds. Though using coupons certainly helps, there are other ways too. Do you watch a lot movies at the theater or rent a lot of movies through a mail order service?
Family Balance Sheet
MARCH 19, 2014
Using Dave Ramsey’s 7 baby steps, we created our Debt Freedom Plan. Save $$$ Home Emergency Fund – Dave suggests to start at $1000, but being self-employed, ours is much higher, but it is not quite 3-6 months of expenses. We will use Dave Ramsey’s debt snowball method. | But we needed a plan.
Family Balance Sheet
MAY 21, 2021
Your first assignment: Take the first step and calculate your debts by using my FREE Family Balance Sheet. Being self-employed, we felt we needed more than Dave’s recommended $1000 starter emergency fund that he outlines in his book, so our first step was to save a bit more for our home and office.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
JULY 28, 2014
I mastered the use of excel spreadsheets while monitoring every expense, I opened my first retirement account and bought my first shares of stock while feverishly reading through Investing for Dummies , I began checking all of my accounts, every day to ensure that any and all charges were correct and accounted for… and I loved it.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
When I was younger, I used to think that a higher income was the solution to most of my financial issues. So we re-jiggered our finances so that we only spend on things that we really enjoy, and that are really important to us. However, this isn’t always the case. ” What About Where You Live?
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