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Money Matters: How to Prepare Your Finances for a Recession

Motherhood Moments

Prepare ahead of time and create a bare bones budget that includes only your essentials — think food, shelter, clothes, transportation and insurance — so you have a plan in the event that you experience a loss of income or need to cut expenses suddenly. Maliga shares several ways to prepare for a recession: Prepare a bare bones budget.

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How to Prevent Three Common Disastrous Personal Financial Mistakes

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

A financial advisor told me recently that the thing that really made him upset was that nearly every new client he spoke to was making the same disastrous personal finance mistakes. So let’s look at the most common personal finance mistakes and what you can do to prevent or fix them. That was me, at any rate.

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How To Get Your Budget To Balance

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We all know that one of the best personal finance strategies is to have a budget and you’ve probably tried to create one at some time. Maybe you’re like me and could never get the budget to balance; I always had more expenditure than income and couldn’t see how I was going to be able to cut expenses. Food accounts for 15.6%

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How to Quit Smoking Naturally

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

There are many ideas on how to quit smoking; some very successful and others are dismal failures. Ensure that you include increased amounts of foods that are rich in these nutrients to help your body adjust. Vitamin C-rich foods include berries, blackcurrants, citrus fruits, capsicum and broccoli. Yes it is possible.

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The Prairie Eco-Thrifter Giveaway Extravaganza: 2nd Anniversary with an iPad 3 and over $200 Cash To Be Won Plus a Bonus Prize

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

While many personal finance sites focus on things such as getting out of debt, saving for retirement, and investing, what really matters to me the most is how we can live healthy prosperous lives. The site has grown and changed so much and I owe it all to you, my readers. You have made the last two years unforgettable.

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How to be a Frugal Family

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Avoid wasting energy, water, gas, food and the like. Food items like fresh produce or food items that expire easily should not be bought in bulk or you will find them thrown into the trash before they can be consumed. Frugal Food Tips Have you been looking at your budget lately?

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How to Teach Your Kids About Money and Business – Take A Family Field Trip

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Talk about what each person is doing, such as taking the orders, entering them into the computer so the people filling them know what to do, taking the money, making the french fries or hamburgers, sweeping the floors or cleaning the bathrooms. Talk about how the food gets to that location, and the jobs involved with that.