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What are YOUR Financial Goals? | 31 Days to Organize Your Finances

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Today’s assignment: List your SMART financial goals. Earlier this year, my husband and I wrote a specific list of financial goals and named it Our Debt Freedom Plan. Prior this plan, we had set goals, but never before had we been so specific with a step by step approach. Is it to pay off your house?

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How We Frugal-ed in August 2022

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I’m always looking for ways to save my family money to not only help us get through current higher food and gas prices but also to help us achieve our big financial goals. This was the first time I’ve found anything under my name on the unclaimed property site. But in the end, $155 is still a gift.

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Learn Vest: FREE 10 Day Budget Bootcamp

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Learn Vest is offering a 10-day email program that will give you daily to-dos to achieve your financial goals. Dream big and set financial goals you can achieve. Disclosure - This post contains affiliate links that help support this site at no additional cost to you. You can read the site's full disclosure here.

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Spring Clean.Your Finances

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Welcome in the beauty of the season with 5 Steps to Spring Cleaning Your Finances Review your 2011 Financial Goals. Did you make some financial goals for 2011 back in January? Take some time this month to review your goals. You spring clean your home; why not spring clean your finances?

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A Sweeter Way to Cook Your Budget

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you Google how to make a budget, you’ll find the same boilerplate list of steps on thousands of sites. Once you’ve made some financial goals that motivate and inspire you, try and put dollar amounts around them. Once your financial goals and costs are set, now you add in your income and expenses.

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Are Peer Loans Too Risky or the Way of the Future?

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The second-largest peer lending site originated its second billion in loans in just six months this year. A borrower fills out an application for an unsecured personal loan of up to $35,000 on one of the online lending sites which verify employment and other information. Online lending has jumped over the last year.

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Buying a Lottery Ticket Isn’t as Stupid as You Think

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After all, 1 in 175,223,510 according to the Powerball site is the chance of winning the jackpot. 1 in 10,000 from the National Weather Service Lightening Safety site. Setting Financial Goals: Make Them Smart and Simple You’ve heard the saying that nothing worthwhile is achieved without a goal? I disagree.

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