Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Instead, he shared the story about Susan, a wife, and mother who handled all of the financial tasks in her home, from budgeting to making investment decisions. I read this book around the same time that I became a mother and left the full-time workforce to stay at home with our new baby.

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Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 2, 2021

After writing some financial goals that had a lot to do with researching topics, such as retirement and college savings strategies, I realized that maybe my word for 2020 was READ. Read: My 2020 Financial Goals. Of course, 2020 brought us a pandemic and a lot of free time. I want to increase our open space.

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Family Balance Sheet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

In fact, it was one of my 2020 financial goals. Our Family Vital Info Binder contains all of our important-to-us info in one place and since I am the family office manager, my husband can use the binder to find anything he needs if I’m unavailable. Insurance – including health, auto, home, life.

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Family Balance Sheet

MARCH 9, 2018

I’ve been working behind the scenes on a tool that I personally use to track and organize our finances: Family Budget Spreadsheets. I knew it was coming, because we hadn’t planned for all of the gifts we bought in December and used a credit card to pay for them. This is a one month only spreadsheet.

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Family Balance Sheet

AUGUST 21, 2020

Debts still need to be paid, cars will need new parts, homes will need to be repaired, and kids will need braces. My Excel spreadsheet listed our short-term and long-term account balances, our debts, and our short-term and long-term financial goals. I STILL use our spreadsheet today. You could also use a recent appraisal.

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

The spreadsheet listed our short-term and long-term account balances, our debts, and our short-term and long-term financial goals. I STILL use our spreadsheet today. We are working towards some pretty big financial goals and we’ve hit quite a few already. I don’t want him to feel that way.

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Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 10, 2012

But for the two of us to achieve our financial goals, we need to have money conversations and they need to be done regularly. Money conversations aren't always easy to have, yet I feel that for me and my husband they are so imperative to the stability of our marriage and our home. What home improvements need to be done?

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Family Balance Sheet

MAY 5, 2014

We used to go out to dinner every Friday night, but we’ve put a stop to that treat as we work through some of our financial goals. I used t he dough recipe for my homemade Stromboli. When I came home for lunch, I punched down the risen dough and put it in the fridge until dinner prep.

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Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 17, 2018

We sent them off on Monday morning and they came home Saturday afternoon. We used gift cards on 3 nights, ate leftovers on 1 night, and grilled burgers on the last night. One of the gift cards was given to us TWO years ago for Christmas. Our home was very quiet and we missed our girls terribly, but we had a wonderful week too.

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Home and Garden Financial Goals Friends And Family Sale Gardening 100

Family Balance Sheet

MARCH 11, 2021

For many, it’s a time to clean the house and the closets, wash the windows of their winter grime, and air out our homes. Spring is also a good time to get your financial house in order. Do our goals still make sense now that we’re in the trenches of the new year? Take some time to review your yearly financial goals.

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Family Balance Sheet

MARCH 12, 2015

Refresh your memory with what you were thinking at the beginning of the year and review your yearly financial goals. You’re now in the trenches of the new year, do those goals still make sense? When reviewing your goals, did you use the S.M.A.R.T. I have a love/hate relationship with my home office space.

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Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 8, 2020

ALSO our 2019 Financial Goal!). After reading, Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste. That book has changed my outlook on reusing, recycling, making do, and rethinking one use products. We knocked this out of the park. 6 – Reduce my impact on the environment.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 13, 2011

Do you have items in your house that you never use? We need to work together to set some financial goals and a budget for you so that you can resist spending money on items that really don’t matter in the long run. Leave your credit cards at home. Lastly, set some financial goals. Yes or No. Yes or No.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 25, 2014

In fact, without even trying I have been spending less and less time on my blogs and online businesses, and more and more time enjoying our home with him. We have bikes, so we like to get out and use those on the cooler, drier days. , and has been fairly conducive to doing that. Play a Sport or Get Active. Get Healthy'

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Savings Corner

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Portions of this article were drafted using an in-house natural language generation platform. A personal loan is money borrowed from a lender that can be used for nearly any purpose. Consolidate debt: You can use a personal loan to consolidate expensive debt, such as credit card debt.

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Penny Pinchin' Mom

MARCH 11, 2024

We know that saving for a rainy day isn’t just a phrase our grandparents used to throw around. Whether you are looking to save extra money for your emergency fund and potential unexpected expense, a new kitchen, or your kids’ college tuition—you name it—you will require self-discipline and a plan to reach any financial goal.

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Family Balance Sheet

JULY 10, 2023

My goal has always been to live well on less while achieving our big financial goals. My plan is to use this cash first as it will come to term around the same time we will need to make the first college payment. We have already used one of the credits for my daughter’s flight to the Midwest later this summer.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 10, 2014

I used to live in Weehawken, New Jersey, a twenty minute commute from midtown Manhattan. Small Choices Means Big Gains When Achieving Financial… What To Consider When Deciding To Buy a Home Understanding The Costs Of Home Health Care Setting Financial Goals: Make Them Smart and Simple Rent-to-Own Homes: A Way to Make a Home Sale Work.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 11, 2013

Considering the work from home approach? If so, don’t miss John’s post at Frugal Rules that describes The Potential Pitfalls of Working from Home. Are you struggling to find motivation with your financial goals? Using Kids Crafts to Teach the Gift of Giving. If so, get Off Your Computer and Go Outside!

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Family Balance Sheet

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

It’s Frugal Friday: A recap of how we frugal-ed our way through the week so that we have more money to put towards our financial goals. Friday: Homemade Ham & Bean Soup , homemade sugar-free applesauce This soup takes some time from start to finish, but I work from home on Fridays, so I had the time. Home Brewed Ice Tea.

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Family Balance Sheet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

It’s a tight budget and I failed miserably over the summer, but we have lots of financial goals, so I need to get it back in line. But they come home from school starving and they come home from swim practice starving, so they are eating the equivalent of TWO dinners during the week. Want to lower your grocery bill?

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Penny Pinchin' Mom

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

It goes: 50% of your salary should go to your expenses and needs 30% should go towards what you want (a new car, a vacation, and all that) 20% should go towards your savings plan So, using this rule, 20% of everything you earn should go toward savings. Use In-Network ATMs Did you know that you could be losing as much as $5.00

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Savings Corner

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Bankrate’s AdvisorMatch can connect you to a CFP® professional to help you achieve your financial goals. Here’s what financial planning is all about and what you need to know to get started. What is a financial plan? These are some of the largest issues when it comes to financial planning. And how big?

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 10, 2013

I believe that if you use a process to make your decisions, you will be more apt to make more good ones than bad. What is your vision of your financial future? Have a goal, develop a plan and use it to make your choices – the ones that lead to moving your plan forward. Using common sense. If not, think again.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 10, 2012

I’d estimate that it’s the recipe 80% of Americans use, because it’s the one on the back of the Toll House chocolate chip bag. Yet for a few years I made the Toll House recipe, because that’s what everyone I talked to was using for a recipe. Once your financial goals and costs are set, now you add in your income and expenses.

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Family Balance Sheet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

It’s a tight budget and I failed miserably over the summer, but we have lots of financial goals, so I need to get it back in line. When I got home, I washed the apples in some vinegar water and made my first batch of homemade sugar-free applesauce of the season. How I Use Pinterest for Meal Planning.

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Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

He now works as an architect, and I do some freelance from home now that we have kids. We bought into the myth that student loan debt is “good debt” and that it was better to “invest” in buying a home instead. After we had kids, though, I stayed home, so we continued making the minimum payment for years.

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Family Balance Sheet

JULY 13, 2016

Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally? Drew was the “spender” and used to buy tech toys, gadgets, etc. What are your financial goals now? The post Find out How Drew & Farrah Paid off $200k of debt, including their HOME appeared first on Family Balance Sheet.

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Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 2, 2022

Include everything from weekend trips to longer vacations, yard/garden projects, home renovations, kids’ camps, gear and clothing, and any other summer expense you might have. Swap with another family who could use a date night too. We used to live near a trail that was very shaded and had picnic tables along the path.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Many people are still trapped in debts and financial insufficiency due to the wrong formula or mindset they’ve been following ever since they got employed. If you use the formula: INCOME–EXPENSES = SAVINGS , then you are bound to find yourself with a ‘financial cavity’. Set Financial Goals. Get Out of Debt.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 7, 2014

I talked to Ron Suber, President of Prosper Marketplace, last week and about growth in other loan types including: small business, home improvement, travel and medical expenses. Used properly, it can help you build your dream home and reach your financial goals. Credit is a tool in personal finance.

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Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 5, 2019

Our main financial goal is to pay off our last non-mortgage loan. It was a goal in 2018, but high medical bills and other financial challenges hindered our progress. I want to reduce our clutter/stuff by getting rid of the things that cramp our small home and aren’t really that important to our quality of life.

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Family Balance Sheet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

She and her husband paid off $147,000 in debt–including their home. Tell us about you and your family. About $52,000 of that $147K was consumer debt (credit cards, a student loan, a car loan, a home improvement loan, etc.) From start to finish it took us a very long time — I would guess 10 years.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 28, 2014

I mastered the use of excel spreadsheets while monitoring every expense, I opened my first retirement account and bought my first shares of stock while feverishly reading through Investing for Dummies , I began checking all of my accounts, every day to ensure that any and all charges were correct and accounted for… and I loved it.

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Family Balance Sheet

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

San Antonio, Texas is our home when we aren’t traveling the world. Daniel took on an extra job doing support work for an online company that he could do from home. We sold extra items that we weren’t using through Craigslist and garage sales. We ate at home a lot and watched our food budget carefully.

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Debt Debt Free Finance Friends And Family Sale 245

Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 30, 2015

We have some hefty financial goals this year and this is just one more way for me to squeeze more from our budget. We also made a few new needed purchases for our home, such as a new patio umbrella and a cover for our gas grill. I’m a bit squeamish about bringing used upholstered furniture into my house.

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Savings Corner

DECEMBER 24, 2023

But now, as we approach the end of 2023, inflation is much lower but home prices and mortgage rates are both sky-high. Determine why you want to buy a house Purchasing a home is a major decision that shouldn’t be taken lightly. Get started: Define your personal and financial goals. Is location the top priority?

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