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Designate a Family Office Manager | Marriage & Money

Family Balance Sheet

” Stanley wrote about Susan, a wife and mother who handled all of the financial tasks in her home, from budgeting to making investment decisions. It was a hard transition for me to go from being an equal financial contributor in my marriage to staying at home with a baby and not bringing in a paycheck.

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Revenge Spending and Other Married Money Tricks

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If he indulges in his penchant for gifting HIS favorite cause, I send equal amounts to my struggling brother. Revenge spending seems like a fairly innocent way to make up for a real or perceived hurt, but if it goes unchecked can cause financial and relationship issues. I wanted to buy a nice TV so I had to save up for it.

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Let’s Talk about Employment

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I also teach college part-time in addition to working on my freelance writing career. Through those situations, I’ve picked up a lot of useful information that I hope will help make your career, whatever phase it’s in, smoother than mine. Tone can make or break a conversation even more than the actual words can.

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Find out how Jessica & Her Husband Paid off $175,000 of Debt

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Along our part-time business my husband is a senior web designer for Ramsey Solutions aka Dave Ramsey. We live a pretty busy lives and when given free weekends at home we love spending time at home on our little farm. You’d be surprised how much money you could make on things that are just accumulating dust in your home!

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Find out How Acadia & Her Husband Paid off $97,000 in Student Loans

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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. Be creative.

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Find out How Drew & Farrah Paid off $200k of debt, including their HOME

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Drew works full time for Department of Defense. Farrah works part time for Department of Defense. We knew that we would make more money but we wanted to be able to buy a house with a conventional mortgage and we can’t come up with the down payment so we need to ratchet down. Making a budget and cutting expenses.

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Find out How Brian & His Wife Paid off $109,000 in Credit Card Debt

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I work full time in IT and my wife works part time in retail. I was looking for a get out of debt free card, but quickly realized managing money was really all common sense: having a plan for you money in a form of a budget and spend less then you make. We evaluated it and began to make cuts. We live in New York.

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