Saving With Shellie

MARCH 16, 2017

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Saving With Shellie

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Every parent and grandparent loves having pictures of their kids and grandkids! Get a head start on some sweet gifts for family by visiting Shutterfly and creating a FREE 20-page 8×8 Photo Book from Shutterfly when you use coupon code 1FREEBOOK at checkout. This offer is good from now until 3/19.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

I come from a family of three children, though one of my brothers died as an infant and the other died in his twenties. Meanwhile, I am mom to three kids. Of course, our expenses during that time were much lower than they are now that we have three kids. Spoiling my kids is difficult because we have limited resources.

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Saving With Shellie

JUNE 29, 2017

Every parent and grandparent loves having pictures of their kids and grandkids! Get a head start on some sweet gifts for family by visiting Shutterfly and creating a FREE 20-page 8×8 Photo Book from Shutterfly when you use coupon code YIPPEE at checkout. This offer is good through today only!

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Many well to do families have been counting on this as a way to pass along significant wealth to their next generations. If they are primary beneficiaries, the parents or guardians may have to go to court and get themselves designated as able to manage the account for the child. Roth IRA contributions are made post tax.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 15, 2015

For example, if you want to buy slightly used home furnishings, find an upscale neighborhood where the kids are mostly grown. Sometimes these types of neighborhoods have folks that have lost parents or parents have moved into smaller homes or retirement communities and have given their adult children some of their treasures.

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Garage Sale Garage Finds Sale 100

Nicoles Nickels

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Do family members go mysteriously “missing” on laundry day? The folks at Whirlpool® have created an easy-to-use app that helps turn your family into a team of wash and dry wizards… all from the palm of your hand. The free Whirlpool® WashSquad App lets you: Assign laundry jobs to your family. Well fear not!

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 16, 2015

She is soon to be 92 years old and uses her position as the family matriarch to teach the rest of us to be grateful. When she saw that her great-grandchildren were not writing thank you notes for her gifts to them, she sent their parents a set of Thank you note cards with envelopes and postage! She is spunky and outspoken.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 13, 2015

Before you get ready to shove those kids of yours out of the nest, here are what I consider to be (based on my experience as a person, a Mom, and a Grandma) the most important things you (or someone) should teach them about personal finance. Here, told as I would tell it to my Grandkids, are my top 5 lessons. No one owes you a living.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The Grandkids are 9 and 12 now with lots of time before they have to start supporting themselves somehow. After 10 years raising kids, I decided to re-enter the workforce. Summer jobs become permanent ones; family or friends pressure young people toward options that avoid temporary unemployment. It didn’t.

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Nicoles Nickels

APRIL 24, 2014

As I said if they would just stay away from me and my family members (including the furry ones) they wouldn’t bother me. When we were kids my little brother used to annoy/scare/threaten me by chasing me around with some sort of bug/spider to throw on me. (I It’s how I know that parents are heroes.

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Outdoors Grandkids Kids and Family Zoo 63

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 17, 2015

We Baby Boomers are fueling the travel industry and many of us are taking our extended families along on our vacations. percent of all vacation trips now consist of grandparents, parents and children traveling together. We aren’t the first generation of my family to include multiple generations on trips though.

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