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Build Memories and Spend Less on Your Grandchildren this Summer

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Hold a garage sale together. The complexity, length, composition and technical difficulty of the production will be a function of the child’s age and interest levels.

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It’s a New Year – Start it off Right with Cascadian Farm!

Nicoles Nickels

This year I’m focusing on less gluten and sugar for me and my grandchildren. In-Store Savings: Save on Cascadian Farms cereals and bars, on sale 2 for $5. Cascadian Farm has products that I can count on to be the best possible versions of those foods available! Save $1/2 Cascadian Farms cereals, bars and frozen products.

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How to Handle the Stock Market Roller Coaster Ride?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Write down my life experiences on economic downturns for the future benefit of my grandchildren. Write a book about our experiences during the Great Recession and this aftermath of it and offer it for sale. Share tips on surviving economic downturns within the family.

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11 Things I learned After Owning a Vacation Property

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I wanted a place for our family to gather – adult children and grandchildren along with us. Yet we plunked down the huge $25,000 sale price to get a slip in it – not even requiring that the money be put into escrow. My sister-in-law and her husband had one that they used and rented out and indicated that it was doing well.

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How is Your Vacation Rental Doing?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Wouldn’t it be fun to have a place where our sons, their wives and our grandchildren could come together to play, visit and bond? If we hadn’t sold stocks and mutual funds to come up with the money to close the sale (cash on the table), we wouldn’t have generated a huge capital gain in 2007. Gather the family.

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Join The Celebration of Real Beauty with Dove

Nicoles Nickels

But I finally decided on pictures of me, my daughter and each of my grandchildren. Related Stories Outback Steakhouse – Click Through Seating Sales & Giveaways at Cross Country Cafe! I loved putting together my personal Dove Beauty Chain. The hardest part was deciding which pictures to include! This has been a sponsored post.

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Why Did I Buy That!

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Last summer, in my annual ‘Grandma Rie’s Money Camp’ (the week long camp I have with my Grandchildren to help them learn about finances); we had a segment on selling and how companies sell to us. Last week I visited a garage sale. I didn’t feel obligated, but did end up buying another package of it at that sale!

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