Savings Corner

DECEMBER 23, 2023

This is also an opportune time to explore the life insurance offered through your new employer. Typically, it’s equal to one or two times your salary, or it may be a set amount like $50,000. At 22 years old, Summer was managing her own household, working full-time and attending school with dreams of becoming a doctor.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 31, 2014

Forbes reported: ”According to new numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2012 full-time employed women earned just 80.9% of the salaries their male counterparts did, down more than a full percentage point from 2011 when the number hovered over 82%.” Teach your daughter to be equal.

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Family Balance Sheet

JULY 2, 2015

We have a 5 year old son and are in the process of adopting our 2 year old and 4 month old foster sons, making us parents of 3 boys! My husband works as an architect and I teach art part time at my son’s school. We sacrificed a lot of time together and took on a lot of stress during this time.

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Family Balance Sheet

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

My husband is an extremely hard worker as he works and goes to school full time. Here I was, leaning against his $20,000 truck, while my $15,000 car is sitting in the drive way of our $150,000 house, and through all this our 8 month old son was sleeping in his $400 crib, and I didn’t have $20 bucks of my own money to get gas.

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Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 1, 2015

We’re a family of five, including, me, my wife and 3 children: 15 year old fraternal twins and a 12 year old son. I work full time in IT and my wife works part time in retail. Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally? What do you and your spouse do for a living?

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