Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

So part of the issue is individuals aren’t saving enough towards basic goals. Forget about loftier goals that are 20, 30 or 40 years away. FinTech, as this growing space has been called, is helping take the mystery out of investing and personal finance. One such service is Personal Capital.

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Motherhood Moments

JANUARY 18, 2023

manage personal finances, prepare a meal, make an appointment)” as the #1 priority for education outcomes. Respondents reported “students develop practical skills (e.g. Respondents believe students should advance once they have demonstrated mastery of a subject (#7) rather than when they pass an arbitrary test.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 10, 2011

My goal here at PET is to bring a wide range of viewpoints and strategies to the world of personal finance, living green, saving money, and being healthy. Derek blogs at Life And My Finances. Derek blogs at Life And My Finances. He also runs his own personal finance web properties.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 15, 2011

5 Pieces of Advice to Tell Your Child About Money is a series that will run every Tuesday for the next few weeks where some of the top personal finance bloggers share their thoughts on this topic. Money is not a goal. Only then can you start to think about how you can earn money and be financially secure to reach those goals.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 30, 2013

As you might expect, especially among personal finance bloggers, financial resolutions are pretty popular. A little education — and the application of the things you learn — can go a long way toward helping you set and keep financial goals that yield good returns. We all need help sometimes. What do you think?

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 10, 2012

It’s a list of steps that brings about a generic budget completely void of any hopes, dreams and personal aspirations. You can’t get what you want out of your personal finances on the Toll House budget. Once you’ve made some financial goals that motivate and inspire you, try and put dollar amounts around them.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 21, 2011

After taking lessons for a while, it occurred to me that playing the piano is just a hobby of mine, and I can’t let it interfere with my primary goal of building a business. That’s when I realized that goals and hobbies are two different things. The key to achieving large goals is to break them up into smaller goals.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Credit is a tool in personal finance. Used properly, it can help you build your dream home and reach your financial goals. Understand the risks to peer loans and you may just find one of your best tools in personal finance. Used irresponsibly, and like any tool, it can smash your fingers something fierce.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 25, 2014

There’s a great power in mindfulness, and it has served me in achieving goals from completing the marathon to living a happier life. When trying to make a major change like following a diet or workout plan, the key is to bring mindfulness to everyone of those automatic actions or responses and see if it’s serving the end goal.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 18, 2013

When it comes to managing your money, sometimes it has to be First Values and Goals, Then Strategies , as Emily from Evolving Personal Finance highlights. TTMK at Tie the Money Knot wonders if Using the 80/20 Rule for Money and Life can help you achieve your goals.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 24, 2013

It was developed by two university personal finance professors one at Virginia Tech and the other at Kansas State University. Set your financial goals. In order to meet some financial goals, you must take some level of risk. In order to meet some financial goals, you must take some level of risk.

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Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Our goal is to always come out even. Festival of Frugality at Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance Carnival of Personal Finance at Control Your Cash Food around the web : Lime and Ginger Poached Salmon at Calico and Cupcakes. I always wondered how they determined our numbers. Great idea for a Valentines' Day meal.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 5, 2011

5 Pieces of Advice to Tell Your Child About Money is a series that will run every Tuesday for the next few weeks where some of the top personal finance bloggers share their thoughts on this topic. Living below your means is the foundation of personal finance. At the end of the series I will post my own 5 pieces of advice.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 27, 2011

Many thanks to the awesome bloggers out there who included PET articles in these carnivals: My Personal Finance Journey included How Yoga Helped Me Reach My Goals and Be a Better Person in this week’s Yakezie Carnival.

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Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

No surprise there; I write a blog about family life and finances. But with my corporate background and interest in personal finance, my husband and I agreed that I would handle all of the day-to-day financial tasks for our home. Create our family’s financial goals and Debt Freedom Plan. Has it been smooth sailing?

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Penny Pinchin' Mom

DECEMBER 17, 2023

So, you want to get started on debt repayment so you can focus on other financial goals? You are one emergency short of losing track of your finances. Doing this actually gave me the peace of mind that I needed to focus on my financial goals. You will also have more disposable income to devote to your other financial goals.

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Family Balance Sheet

DECEMBER 28, 2016

If you’re thinking about some resolutions for 2017 that have to do with YOUR finances, then I’m inviting you to join me in January for the New Year New You Financial Summit. LaTisha is a nationally recognized, millennial personal finance expert. Don’t worry, you don’t have to go anywhere.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 10, 2013

Finalizing your 2013 goals? Figuring out a budget and how to meet those goals? 5 New Year’s Resolutions to Improve Your Finances The new year brings us another twelve months of infinite possibilities, another chance to turn our lives around. 90 is the new 70? Hope you have a great weekend. As December.

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Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 1, 2015

After trying to extend credit to finance the vacation and we were denied (best thing to ever happen to us) we realized we made too much money to be living like this and something had to change. If married, who initiated the debt free goal? The short term sacrifice was for the long term goal of being debt free.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

Now without further adieu, I present you with the dozens of great reads written by Yakezie members and challengers alike this past week in our efforts to bring you timely insight on personal finance and lifestyle today. Personal Finance Whiz: Keynesian vs Hayekian Economics – The Solution To Our Recession?

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Family Balance Sheet

MARCH 19, 2014

Our personal finances are so interwoven with our small business finances that they must be seen as one. Our goal is to have everything funded by the summer. We have a long road ahead of us, but we have a plan to reach our goal of being debt-free. “Setting a goal is not the main thing.

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Penny Pinchin' Mom

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Narrow Down a Price Range If you are going to save money , you need to have a target savings goal in mind that you can work toward. Try using cash as much as possible for your purchases and work on that savings goal. Just make sure you have a trusted mechanic look over the car before you hand over your hard-earned money.

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Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 9, 2021

Our personal finances are so interwoven with our small business finances that we view them as one. And as you’ll see below, we also added a few more steps that he probably wouldn’t suggest or approve of, but there’s a reason why this is called personal finance. A guiding light! DONE November 2019.

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Saving Everyday

JUNE 11, 2013

Sign up for the Retiring in Style Bootcamp and receive 10-day bootcamp to take control of your personal finances. Create a retirement plan that also works with your other goals. You learn how to: Envision your future retirement and learn how to get there. Find out how much you need to save in total and each month.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 18, 2011

She blogs about personal finance at Budgeting in the Fun Stuff and how she earns money at How I Money Online. However, over the last year, she has made huge strides in reaching her weight goal. She started blogging in early 2010 and is now blogging full time. Crystal will be sharing her weight loss journey here at PET.

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Family Balance Sheet

OCTOBER 16, 2017

I could talk all day about personal finance and money-saving strategies, but my husband, while very responsible with money, just doesn’t feel the same way. To keep the communication flowing, I created my very first Balance Sheet to give my husband a snapshot of our household and business finances.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Our personal finances obviously require attention all year long. Clean out and organize paper files for personal finances. Set financial goals for the year. However, there are certain times of the year I have picked to focus on certain things. Perhaps someday I will also use it to help me write my autobiography.

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Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I also took on the role, because I had an interest in the topic of personal finance. No surprise there; I write a blog about family finances. Create your financial goals. What does that person do in your home? Review the Family Balance Sheet and spending monthly. Discuss and agree upon all major purchases.

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Family Balance Sheet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

If you have a personal finance inspiring story where you have made a positive impact to your own Family Balance Sheet, then we want to hear it as part of my Inspiring Story series. My goal is to post 1 -2 guest posts a month through the fall and if this is successful, I will continue into spring 2012. Have you erased your debt?

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 18, 2011

It is amazing, $45 a person at night or $30 a person at lunch, and we go once a year on my birthday at the end of December usually. But since I hit my goal, we ended up going as a date night on September 28th before my weekend away in Chicago. I was just in the mood for Fogo de Chao and wanted a way of going before my birthday.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 23, 2015

Set your financial goals together and you both will be more likely to stick to them. Weigh each decision against your financial goals. Educate yourself and your family in personal finance concepts. Get your family on board. If you are married, make sure you talk the money talk, frequently, with your spouse.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 7, 2011

As usual there were a ton of great reads floating around the blogosphere written by my pals in the Yakezie network as well as some other personal finance bloggers. Ever since I got married last year, I have done a lot of thinking about the future and the state of our finances and what goals we have as a couple.

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Family Balance Sheet

MARCH 26, 2021

According to Dave’s Baby Steps, once non-mortgaged debts are paid off, your goal should be to save three to six months of living expenses. This amount is also highly recommended by other personal finance experts. Only you can determine how much you need in a starter emergency fund.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 28, 2011

As some of you know, one of my goals for 2011 is to become a certified fitness professional. The goal was to be certified by summer. Moolanomy tells us how we can reach our savings goals by using virtual bank accounts. Sustainable Personal Finance tells us how they make healthy lunches from home and save.

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Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 8, 2020

ALSO our 2019 Financial Goal!). This is a work in progress and I feel it will always by my goal. This will always be a work in progress and you’ll understand why it will be more crucial for me when you read my 2020 goals below! We knocked this out of the park. Related Reading: Our Debt Freedom Plan Update (October 2019).

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

While my spouse and I were in the throes of child rearing we didn’t think much about providing an intentional or structured set of lessons around personal finance. Help them figure out what to save for and show them that you have goals for your own savings.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 30, 2011

Guest Post Author Bio: The following is a guest post from Brian at Home Insurance Comparison, an Australian personal finance blog created to help readers figure out how to properly compare home insurance options. If this is something that interests you, try to align your investment goals with issues that are significant to you.

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