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Designate a Family Office Manager | Marriage & Money

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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. Pay bills in a timely manner. Manage long term savings, such as retirement, college savings. Create your financial goals.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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Our emergency fund has saved us countless times and it will save us once again with the truck. And while I don’t like parting with our money, I am grateful that this repair won’t send us into financial distress. Now it’s time to FIND THE MONEY! But the truth is, we have the money.

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Find out How Brian & His Wife Paid off $109,000 in Credit Card Debt

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I work full time in IT and my wife works part time in retail. What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. If you track your spending for 2-3 months by saving every receipt you get a good idea where every dollar is going. We live in New York.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

Family Balance Sheet

Our emergency fund has saved us countless times and it will save us once again with the truck. And while I don’t like parting with our money, I am grateful that this repair won’t send us into financial distress. How much can you save just by cutting out non-essential spending?

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Find out how Jessica & Her Husband Paid off $175,000 of Debt

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Along our part-time business my husband is a senior web designer for Ramsey Solutions aka Dave Ramsey. We live a pretty busy lives and when given free weekends at home we love spending time at home on our little farm. This ultimately is what put us on the fast track for paying off debt in such a quick amount of time.

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Find out How Acadia & Her Husband Paid off $97,000 in Student Loans

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My husband works as an architect and I teach art part time at my son’s school. We sacrificed a lot of time together and took on a lot of stress during this time. But in the end, we ended up making enough profit to pay off our debt entirely and still put some into savings! We strive to be a pretty active family.

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Find out How Drew & Farrah Paid off $200k of debt, including their HOME

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Drew works full time for Department of Defense. Farrah works part time for Department of Defense. What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. What are your financial goals now? Save up cash for the next bigger house. We have a family of 4.

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