Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

This is one of the fundamental questions of finance, yet often goes unanswered by many financial advisors and most individuals. So part of the issue is individuals aren’t saving enough towards basic goals. Forget about loftier goals that are 20, 30 or 40 years away. One such service is Personal Capital.

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Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

In highly affluent circles, a family office is a private wealth management firm that manages the finances and investments for the ultra-wealthy and their families. While I was still helping my husband from home with his business, I felt like I wasn’t contributing to our finances and that drove me crazy. Implement our Debt Freedom Plan.

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Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Wonder what sets you apart from the people that seem to crush their financial goals? with their goals. These folks didn’t corner the market on goal success either, instead they just got the task DONE. His 2017 goal is to make $100,000 in online income. She hit that goal in September 2016. Getting Started.

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Motherhood Moments

JANUARY 18, 2023

manage personal finances, prepare a meal, make an appointment)” as the #1 priority for education outcomes. Respondents reported “students develop practical skills (e.g. Respondents believe students should advance once they have demonstrated mastery of a subject (#7) rather than when they pass an arbitrary test.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 10, 2012

It’s a list of steps that brings about a generic budget completely void of any hopes, dreams and personal aspirations. You can’t get what you want out of your personal finances on the Toll House budget. Once you’ve made some financial goals that motivate and inspire you, try and put dollar amounts around them.

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Family Balance Sheet

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Welcome to 31 Days to Organize Your Finances. By the end of the month, my goal is to help you have a detailed financial plan for your family. We’ll talk about cash flow, budgets, debts, and all of the nitty gritty of our finances that might not be fun to talk about, but are so important to discuss. Six months?

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 10, 2011

My goal here at PET is to bring a wide range of viewpoints and strategies to the world of personal finance, living green, saving money, and being healthy. Derek blogs at Life And My Finances. He utilizes his collegiate degree in finance to help others around the world with their personal finances.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 30, 2013

As you might expect, especially among personal finance bloggers, financial resolutions are pretty popular. What if you are ready to take your finances to the next level? Get help setting financial goals, and working toward them. For 2014, my goal is to work on my dividend/income portfolio. What do you think?

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Credit is a tool in personal finance. Used properly, it can help you build your dream home and reach your financial goals. Understand the risks to peer loans and you may just find one of your best tools in personal finance. Answering Your Top Credit Questions How Increased Interest Rates Affect Your Finances.

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Family Balance Sheet

DECEMBER 28, 2016

If you’re thinking about some resolutions for 2017 that have to do with YOUR finances, then I’m inviting you to join me in January for the New Year New You Financial Summit. LaTisha is a nationally recognized, millennial personal finance expert. 3 pm EST: Budgeting Basics with Jessi Fearon. 8 pm EST: TBD.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 15, 2011

5 Pieces of Advice to Tell Your Child About Money is a series that will run every Tuesday for the next few weeks where some of the top personal finance bloggers share their thoughts on this topic. Money is not a goal. Only then can you start to think about how you can earn money and be financially secure to reach those goals.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 5, 2011

5 Pieces of Advice to Tell Your Child About Money is a series that will run every Tuesday for the next few weeks where some of the top personal finance bloggers share their thoughts on this topic. Living below your means is the foundation of personal finance. At the end of the series I will post my own 5 pieces of advice.

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Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Even though I was helping my husband from home part-time with his business, I still felt like I wasn’t contributing to our finances and that drove me crazy. But chapter 17 helped me realize that I could contribute substantially to our finances–just in a different way. No surprise there; I write a blog about family finances.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

Now without further adieu, I present you with the dozens of great reads written by Yakezie members and challengers alike this past week in our efforts to bring you timely insight on personal finance and lifestyle today. Personal Finance Whiz: Keynesian vs Hayekian Economics – The Solution To Our Recession?

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Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Our goal is to always come out even. Festival of Frugality at Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance Carnival of Personal Finance at Control Your Cash Food around the web : Lime and Ginger Poached Salmon at Calico and Cupcakes. I always wondered how they determined our numbers. Great idea for a Valentines' Day meal.

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Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 1, 2015

After trying to extend credit to finance the vacation and we were denied (best thing to ever happen to us) we realized we made too much money to be living like this and something had to change. If married, who initiated the debt free goal? The short term sacrifice was for the long term goal of being debt free.

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Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 9, 2021

Our personal finances are so interwoven with our small business finances that we view them as one. And as you’ll see below, we also added a few more steps that he probably wouldn’t suggest or approve of, but there’s a reason why this is called personal finance. A guiding light! DONE November 2019.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 27, 2011

Many thanks to the awesome bloggers out there who included PET articles in these carnivals: My Personal Finance Journey included How Yoga Helped Me Reach My Goals and Be a Better Person in this week’s Yakezie Carnival.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 18, 2013

When it comes to managing your money, sometimes it has to be First Values and Goals, Then Strategies , as Emily from Evolving Personal Finance highlights. TTMK at Tie the Money Knot wonders if Using the 80/20 Rule for Money and Life can help you achieve your goals.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 10, 2013

Finalizing your 2013 goals? Figuring out a budget and how to meet those goals? 5 New Year’s Resolutions to Improve Your Finances The new year brings us another twelve months of infinite possibilities, another chance to turn our lives around. 90 is the new 70? Hope you have a great weekend. As December.

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Penny Pinchin' Mom

DECEMBER 17, 2023

So, you want to get started on debt repayment so you can focus on other financial goals? You are one emergency short of losing track of your finances. Doing this actually gave me the peace of mind that I needed to focus on my financial goals. You will also have more disposable income to devote to your other financial goals.

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Savings Corner

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Research and choose your franchise There are a variety of types of franchises to choose from, so you’ll want to start researching to find the one that aligns best with your interests, goals and budget. Many franchises will require certain personal qualifications in order to consider you as a franchisee. Guaranteed by the U.S.

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Family Balance Sheet

MARCH 19, 2014

Our personal finances are so interwoven with our small business finances that they must be seen as one. I’m sharing our plan with you because the direction of our finances has changed. Our goal is to have everything funded by the summer. “Setting a goal is not the main thing.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 25, 2014

There’s a great power in mindfulness, and it has served me in achieving goals from completing the marathon to living a happier life. When trying to make a major change like following a diet or workout plan, the key is to bring mindfulness to everyone of those automatic actions or responses and see if it’s serving the end goal.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 21, 2011

After taking lessons for a while, it occurred to me that playing the piano is just a hobby of mine, and I can’t let it interfere with my primary goal of building a business. That’s when I realized that goals and hobbies are two different things. The key to achieving large goals is to break them up into smaller goals.

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Penny Pinchin' Mom

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

That’s why a vast majority of us go the financing route. Narrow Down a Price Range If you are going to save money , you need to have a target savings goal in mind that you can work toward. Try using cash as much as possible for your purchases and work on that savings goal. How much of that do you have saved up as we speak?

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 24, 2013

It was developed by two university personal finance professors one at Virginia Tech and the other at Kansas State University. Set your financial goals. In order to meet some financial goals, you must take some level of risk. In order to meet some financial goals, you must take some level of risk.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Our personal finances obviously require attention all year long. Clean out and organize paper files for personal finances. Keeping our successor trustees in the loop on our finances and estate plans helps ensure that our estate will be handled well on our deaths. Set financial goals for the year.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 7, 2011

As usual there were a ton of great reads floating around the blogosphere written by my pals in the Yakezie network as well as some other personal finance bloggers. JD Roth over at Get Rich Slowly tells us how we can take control of our finances in 2011. Here is a picture of one of the fascinating structures we will be exploring.

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Family Balance Sheet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

If you have a personal finance inspiring story where you have made a positive impact to your own Family Balance Sheet, then we want to hear it as part of my Inspiring Story series. Your post should be an inspiring story about your own experience where you made a positive impact on your finances. Have you erased your debt?

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Saving Everyday

JUNE 11, 2013

Sign up for the Retiring in Style Bootcamp and receive 10-day bootcamp to take control of your personal finances. Create a retirement plan that also works with your other goals. You learn how to: Envision your future retirement and learn how to get there. Find out how much you need to save in total and each month.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 18, 2011

She blogs about personal finance at Budgeting in the Fun Stuff and how she earns money at How I Money Online. However, over the last year, she has made huge strides in reaching her weight goal. She started blogging in early 2010 and is now blogging full time. Crystal will be sharing her weight loss journey here at PET.

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Family Balance Sheet

OCTOBER 16, 2017

I could talk all day about personal finance and money-saving strategies, but my husband, while very responsible with money, just doesn’t feel the same way. To keep the communication flowing, I created my very first Balance Sheet to give my husband a snapshot of our household and business finances. It was tricky at first.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 10, 2011

Sustainable Personal Finance tells us to stop smoking. How to Save Money clarifies for us what is appropriate to discuss with our children when it comes to our finances. I liked how we can no longer blame our personalities as to why we invest the way we do. Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance - $25 Amazon Gift Card.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 6, 2012

Wayne presents Purpose of Budgeting posted at Young Family Finance , saying, “Are you left wondering why you should budget? Justin presents Know the Common Mistakes with Your Personal Finances posted at Budget Snob , saying, “Many people make the same financial mistakes. The Skilled Investor , Editor.

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Family Balance Sheet

AUGUST 11, 2016

But for our own safety net, we must make our finances a priority. We still refer to it often to remind ourselves of our goals and objectives. It’s hard to change and improve your finances if you have no idea where you currently stand. Use my Family Balance Sheet excel spreadsheet to help you organize your finances.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 28, 2011

As some of you know, one of my goals for 2011 is to become a certified fitness professional. The goal was to be certified by summer. How to Save Money shares with us how we can keep our finances safe when buying items online. We personally use Quicken and we find it works great for reviewing our finances.

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