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Meet a Reader | Mid-Atlantic Julia

The Frugal Girl

Last year, to make a little extra cash, I started boarding dogs through Rover, and I am about to start a very very part time job using my RN license for a home care company. In my free time I enjoy canning and preserving food (well, I enjoy the results of it, ha!), canned peaches = summer in a jar 2.

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Yes Virginia, There is a Money Tree

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The proverbial saying ‘money doesn’t grow on trees’ is used by many a parent in denying some wished for item to their children. Well, kids, your parents lied to you – money does grow on trees. A money tree starts out growing slowly, so small at first that you don’t even think it is there.

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Meet a Reader | Gretchen from Oregon

The Frugal Girl

Our two goats I’m planning to milk next year We also have a big garden, fruit trees, a medicinal herb garden and grow some cut flowers. We spend most of our time seeing friends and family, participating in our church activities or working on our property. I do a lot of our cooking from scratch which takes a lot of my time!

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Reader Story: It’s Never too Late to Start: Personal Finance Planning for Over-40s

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you like, you can use one of the many free online retirement calculator programs to help you with this estimate. I found I was able to shave $50 dollars a week from these two areas alone; my financial guy said that, over the next 20 years, this would grow to around $80,000 at 4% interest! You can adjust the figures as you go along.

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How to Graduate College Without Being Broke

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The same kind of over thinking tends to infect financial advice, as well, especially when it’s doled out to college students who are desperate to come up with ways to make a few extra bucks between studying for exams and balancing their social lives. A Roth IRA lets you sock away up to $5,000 a year, and it can be withdrawn tax-free.

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7 Steps To Homelessness And What To Do If You Get There

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Growing up, she excelled in academics, receiving top grades all the way through school and then going on to get a master degree in biological sciences and even completing most of the course of study for a doctorate. Susan inherited the house, free and clear, along with several hundred thousand dollars. Use Up Existing Resources.

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Do You Hate Your Job?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Doing something every day that you dread, something that makes you fume, something that makes your stomach churn and your sleep restless is extremely bad – for your health, for your family, for your friends and for your life. 10 hours a day at the office plus commute time AND the boss expects you to be available 24 x 7.

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