Family Balance Sheet

AUGUST 21, 2020

However, knowing your numbers will help you determine and make a plan for the messiness. My Excel spreadsheet listed our short-term and long-term account balances, our debts, and our short-term and long-term financial goals. Knowing all of these numbers doesn’t mean that there won’t be messiness with your money.

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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. However, we all agreed that the existing furniture was not comfortable, especially to watch movies. 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.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Watching this scene play out time and time again frustrates and astounds me like watching a person with lung cancer smoke a cigarette. I’ve found that people like to point fingers and make excuses more than they care to take some kind of effective action. And yet, every time, there’s that overweight customer just waiting for it.

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Cycle Cinnabon Goals Financial Goals 181

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. I love to watch my girls swim and push themselves physically, but since they are in two different age groups, they swim have different practice times… of course! homemade applesauce.

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Budgeting Budget Freezers Kids and Family 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 11, 2014

One of the mistakes that we often make when saving is putting everything into one account. It’s fun to watch your account grow, but at the same time, if you have different goals for the money, having everything in one account can be problematic, since you aren’t able to identify which money is earmarked for a specific goal.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 29, 2014

A few years ago, after eating a few too many turkey sandwiches and watching several tummy turning documentaries about the food industry, I became a vegetarian. It makes me sad, not only as a vegetarian, but also as a person who loves good food. Meatless Mondays are a good start, as is a better understanding of vegetarianism in general.

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Financial Goals New York City Fuel Restaurant 172

Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 2, 2022

I want to make sure we have time to squeeze everything in and the funds to do it all. This info will help you make plans for next year. Visit a State Park – Do you like to picnic, hike, swim, camp, bike, bird watch, canoe, fish, and spend your free time exploring the great outdoors? Have you started making summer plans?

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Budgeting Budget Friends And Family Sale Home and Garden 130

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 19, 2014

It wasn’t the time of year that was making me feel so sluggish, it’s my lifestyle and how I’ve been living over the past couple of months. What’s more demotivating than stepping on the scale and seeing a weight gain from all of the holiday treats, or looking outside before a workout and seeing incessant rain?

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Holiday Food and Wine Wine Food and Drink 189

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

When you are trying to improve your financial situation, one of the moves to make is to change the way you spend money. Looking at your motivations helps you figure out how to address the problem, and to make long-term changes to your spending behaviors. Do you want to donate to charity and make the world a better place?

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Motivation Money Goals Finance 250

Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” Stanley wrote about Susan, a wife and mother who handled all of the financial tasks in her home, from budgeting to making investment decisions. She treated her role like a job and helped her family achieve financial independence. Create your financial goals. Financial Organization Marriage and Money'

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Office Money Family Finance 182

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. Two things have happened recently that encouraged me to think about environmental changes I can make in my life. My word for 2019 is REDUCE.

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2019 Recycle Recycled Recycling 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 8, 2017

To prepare your ‘soil’ for growing your finances you can do several things, such as: Learn about different financial institutions, types of assets and investing methods. Discuss and agree on financial goals within your family. Automatic payroll transfers to your bank or financial institution make this very easy.

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Finance Growing Flowers and Plants Gardening 133

Family Balance Sheet

NOVEMBER 4, 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. It will be casual and I think I’m going to make my easy lasagna , salad, steamed vegetables, and of course, birthday cake. Our mission: Live WELL, On LESS Money. How We Saved this Week: 1.

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Frugal Fridays Ebates Credit Cards 100

Family Balance Sheet

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

We ate at home a lot and watched our food budget carefully. What are your financial goals now? When you have your own company you can make as little or as much money as you want. What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt.

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Debt Debt Free Finance Friends And Family Sale 245

Family Balance Sheet

OCTOBER 9, 2014

I want my family to enjoy life, but we also have some pretty serious financial goals that we are trying to achieve. If you make this one simple change, you will reduce your grocery spending. If this interests you, also read, How We Watch Really Great TV Without Cable. I talk a lot about grocery spending on this blog.

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Budgeting Budget Finance Organic 100

Family Balance Sheet

JULY 13, 2016

So I’m thrilled to bring you today’s story, because I actually watched this couple’s debt free scream when it was live on the show. We knew that we would make more money but we wanted to be able to buy a house with a conventional mortgage and we can’t come up with the down payment so we need to ratchet down.

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Debt Debt Free Finds Home 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Most of the conversations we had with each other over the three months was what trades to make and who was an early pick up. We have a blast every year no matter what team makes it in. I can say though that by using a money management program you are more likely to stick to your budget and your financial goals.

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January February Debt Personal Finance 113

Family Balance Sheet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

I watched her and her husband’s debt free scream on The Dave Ramsey Show. Now we had yet another payment to add to the mix, and I honestly didn’t know how I was going to make it all work. I started my YouTube channel, not with the expectation of making money, but this has also provided a small monthly revenue.

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Debt Debt Free Budgeting Budget 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 4, 2011

They are also there working with you to help you reach your goals; even those financial goals. I know I sometimes get bogged down with too many options and I can take forever to make a decision. If we make effort we will succeed. Sometimes a charitable contribution can make a direct impact on your life and others.

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Personal Finance Finance Family Debt 240

Family Balance Sheet

AUGUST 4, 2014

All of this plays into our desire for financial stability. We did watch Financial Peace University with a few of our friends and that was encouraging. As we started deepening our interest in becoming debt free we found plenty of financial bloggers and other resources that encouraged us along the way.

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Debt Free Debt Goals Student 243

Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

We made one big financial goal for 2019 and are striving and working hard to make progress. We started the year with a great January and made some progress with our goal, so to continue the momentum, I wanted to double down on our financial goal and be very mindful with our finances. Find Cash.

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Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 8, 2018

Personally, budgeting has allowed us to control of our money, reach financial goals, and start planning for our dream life. Double check your expense projections and compare to previous statements and bills to make sure they’re correct. First, check your projections to make sure they’re accurate.

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Budgeting Budget Financial Goals Goals 133

Family Balance Sheet

DECEMBER 10, 2014

She blogs about at Careful Cents where she helps creative freelancers and solopreneurs make a living from their craft. It was like 40 feet away from me and I watched the entire thing. I knew then, that no matter what it took, I had to dig myself out of this financial situation and move. What are your financial goals now?

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Debt Debt Free Financial Goals Goals 227

The Frugal Girl

MARCH 4, 2024

I learned to save money by watching my parents. (I A lot of blood, sweat, and tears were shed here, but we both agree that having no mortgage gave us a serious leg up on our retirement savings and other financial goals. I read every post, but don’t comment often – usually some of you have already made my point for me.

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Green And Frugal Kids and Family Hotel Frugal 179

Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 22, 2020

In September 2019, my husband and I accomplished our biggest financial goal in our almost 20 years of marriage. With that much debt, we needed some go big or go home heavy hitters that would make a big impact on debt reduction. Read: How We Watch Great TV without Cable. We moved the goal post multiple times.

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Debt Health Insurance Insurance Budgeting 130

Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 12, 2016

She owns Every Single Dollar , an online financial resource dedicated to helping single women make informed financial decisions and set themselves up for financial success. The inspiration to pay off my debt was watching my grandmother balance her checkbook. It was time to make a change. Where are you from?

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Credit Cards Debt Debt Free Student 100

Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

I had watched my parents pay off their debt, including their house, when I was a pre-teen, which really influenced me. Make your goals visual. I realized we were going to make the last payment on his student loan (our last debt), so I called my husband in to click the ‘submit’ button since it was his debt after all.

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Debt Debt Free College Finds 100

Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 2, 2016

So whether that’s hiking across the beautiful Sussex Downs, growing my own vegetables or taking my binoculars out for a spot of bird watching I rarely spend much time indoors. Finally that careful financial tightrope I was walking came tumbling down. What inspired you to get debt free? Was there a particular event?

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Debt Finds Debt Free Pay Off Debt 100

Family Balance Sheet

AUGUST 11, 2014

The company I had worked at for 12 years when I started my journey in January 2013, announced it would be making significant job cuts summer 2013. I had enjoyed a great salary working in Pharma and been far too irresponsible with what God had blessed me with to provide financially. Watch Tracy’s Debt Free Scream.

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Debt Free Debt Mom Goals 235