Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 4, 2015

I manage the finances for our business and our family and by August 2013, I felt the weight of the situation. Today, my husband and I can’t park a car in our garage because it is filled with 5 bikes, 2 scooters, 2 wagons, and a big wheel. What looked like a great idea on paper, was turning out to be very challenging.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

If the buyer still can’t get a loan at the end of the rental term, the seller can finance the deal themselves or keep the buyer as tenant. Do You Know a Millionaire Garage Sale-er? At the end of the rental term, the buyer can buy the home at the price both parties agreed on, and they’re already part of the way there.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 29, 2014

Instead of repairing a storm damaged garage roof (with money given to her for that purpose), she asked life for a trip to London and got it. She gives herself permission to step beyond the bounds of her finances and seems to land on her feet each time. He ended up getting a full ride scholarship!

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For the Mommas

MARCH 8, 2013

Each issue explores social issues, parenting, marriage, and finances. even shutters, garages, and home gardens. Redbook – Love Life, Home Life, Your Life. Redbook is a contemporary magazine for working mothers who care about life and the world we live in. Love your life with a magazine subscription to Redbook. per year (82% off)!

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 13, 2016

Last summer, in my annual ‘Grandma Rie’s Money Camp’ (the week long camp I have with my Grandchildren to help them learn about finances); we had a segment on selling and how companies sell to us. Last week I visited a garage sale. It was eye opening for the 10 year old. He even wanted to repeat the segment.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Leave your car in the garage and carpool to work or school if you can. 8 Ways to Save Money on Groceries Without Coupons Over my many years of environmental and personal finance writing, one of the most common things I get asked for. Make sure that you aren’t carrying around excess weight-your trunk is not a storage closet.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 15, 2014

My Grandma Rie’s Money Camp is a week long day camp with a focus on finances at age appropriate levels. Hold a garage sale together. The sky is the limit on themes. I hold it each year – but yours can be different themes for different camps if you want.

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Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 26, 2016

Thankfully, we have worked through those trials and the experience actually made a positive impact on our finances. I want to go through our basement, closets, and garage to look for unused items that we can sell. That was the month I didn’t know if we had enough funds to cover our expenses. Apply any Found Money to Debt.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 6, 2016

I pick up a lot of them at garage sales for 25 cents to a $1. Much of the information in it is basic personal finance guidance (with a biblical twist). I’m always on the look out for investment books I haven’t yet read. One I obtained in that manner is “The Sound Mind Investing Handbook” by Austin Pryor.

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Savings Corner

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Your less math-friendly entrepreneurs could use your help in keeping their personal and business finances in order. You might start working weekends out of your garage, but as your business takes off, you’ll be well on your way to your own shop and a brand new, full-time career doing what you love. Take a page from Harp Design Co.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 14, 2012

After that, while you all primed and interested in personal finance, continue and read the awesome articles that were written across the web this week regarding personal finance and enhancing your lifestyle. Finance Fox : Reasons to Buy a Car in January – After the Holidays! Take a moment to watch them.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

If you make $50,000 a year after taxes and spend $60,000 a year, your finances are going backward. You go weekend e-baying, garage-saling or to the flea markets. Not pretend our finances are fine. The key is to rectify these issues and manage our finances in a way that gives us what we need with what we have. If so, why?

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Money is only as taboo as the person who is holding back from talking about it dictates, and because I have no fear when it comes to bringing finances up, people with whom I speak about money tend to be more open. Many people are, and you’re not alone. Men are as guilty of this as women are.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I pointed out the multitude of new blogs related to saving money, being frugal, getting debt under control and learning about finances. We shopped at garage sales, turned down the heat, combined errands to use less gas, didn’t buy a lot of prepared food, cooked at home and the like. We didn’t have a clothes dryer.

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Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 22, 2020

Financially speaking, he focuses on building the business and I focus on managing our home and finances. In September 2001, we bought a 1700 square foot home with a one-car garage and ONE full bathroom. We increased our income. My husband and I divide and conquer in many aspects of our lives. We need to increase our income.”

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The Frugal Girl

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

I don’t want to feel like I’m wasting all the gifts I’ve been given, including my finances. Hosting garage sales & reselling items. Making good use of the resources I have – not only money, but my health, physical abilities, skills, etc. What’s your best frugal win? I have two!

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 4, 2016

Buying personal finance books at garage sales and reading them one after another to make sure you have a basis of knowledge on money management. Continuing to seek out new information in your field to stay current in your job or job hop to a better paying one.

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Savings Corner

DECEMBER 25, 2023

In addition, real estate is typically funded with high levels of debt financing, making it more susceptible to any economic downturn. Rent out useful household items Here’s a variation on renting out an idle car: Start even smaller with other household items that people may need but that may be collecting dust in your garage.

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Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 2, 2016

Many personal finance bloggers talk about having a “no spend week” – well basically I had a “no spend” five years! It might be cheap, but it’ll sit in my garage for the next few months till I started that project that’s on my mind. For example I got up at 3.45 am most days to start work.

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