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7 Ways to Spring Clean Your Finances

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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. SMART goals are: S – specific. Since that time, I have automated most of our financial transactions, but I still rely on my list to keep me in check. auto insurance.

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7 Ways to Spring Clean Your Finances

Family Balance Sheet

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. Bills to review: home owners insurance. auto insurance.

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Small Money Mistakes That Have Big Consequences

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

A budget provides you with a financial roadmap to get to where you want to be in life. A budget gives it to you plain and simple – the good, the bad and the ugly. Not having a budget is a small mistake that can turn into a huge financial error! Look into effective health, disability and life insurance plans.

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Carnival of Personal Finance #316- Family Edition

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They are also there working with you to help you reach your goals; even those financial goals. Tom Drake from Canadian Finance Blog clarifies our Understanding of Term Life Insurance. “To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.&#.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #236 – May 11, 2012

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” Green Panda presents 2 Great Reasons Why Young People Need Life Insurance Too! Nick presents How much house is too much posted at Step Away from the Mall , saying, “Buying a house is never a simple process… Here’s my thinking about how to buy just enough house for my family.

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