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Sustainable Living Traits To Pass On To Your Children

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Go hiking and camping and show them the beauty of the outdoors (and teach them to leave trails and campsites better than when you arrived) Plant a garden with your children to give them a tangible example of how much fun growing your own food and eating healthy can be! And vice versa!)

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

Family Balance Sheet

I’ve been hosting yard sales for over 20 years and have made quite a bit of money in the process. 17 – Find a part-time job. If you need to save a lot of money and you have pinched every last penny, then consider finding a part-time job in order to find the money for your emergency fund.

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50 Best Small-Business Ideas – NerdWallet

Savings Corner

As a bookkeeper, you’ll process invoices and payroll, compile expense reports and more. You’ll need access to a commercial kitchen, a part-time staff of servers and a couple of assistant cooks to start. Accounting and bookkeeping Are you a licensed CPA or a business accounting software wizard?

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Eat to Lose Weight

Saving Cents With Sense

Now as a mom of 3 going back to graduate school and working part time, I knew that I needed to be able to healthy but it also needed to be EASY. Planning was essential for meals because I knew that if I got tired and hungry it would be so easy to continue to snack or grab non-nutritious filler foods. Eliminate processed foods.

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Do You Hate Your Job?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

He felt he had to keep it to make sure that I could stay home with the babies and that we had food and shelter. Financial independence is defined by me as ‘not having to work for a living full time’ You don’t have to be a millionaire to have some financial independence. Plus, he felt trapped in the job.

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Meet a Reader | Beth from VA

The Frugal Girl

I currently work part-time from home, mostly behind a computer. It was a fascinating process. pantry shelves my husband made She’d grown up very poor and she could not stand waste of any kind, especially food. Here’s Beth: 1. Tell us a little about yourself. I’m 52.

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

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Beating Broke presents I Quit My Job: Back to Work posted at Beating Broke , saying, “If you’ve been following the I Quit My Job series, you’ll know that I quit my full-time job back in November 2011 and have been working a part-time job and running my websites ever since. Furniture and major appliances are expensive.

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