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The 5 Most Important Personal Finance Lessons to Teach your Child

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I’m following a long range plan for camp content in my Grandma Rie’s Money Camp and it includes all of these, focusing on different things at different ages. Here, told as I would tell it to my Grandkids, are my top 5 lessons. You need to learn how to talk money. The best way to learn how to talk money is to do it.

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Seven Retirement Lessons Learned

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Perhaps you are socking away go-goobs of money for a far off retirement date and are wondering if it is worthwhile to forego all those ‘along the way’ life treats in order to be prepared for retirement. When I was preparing to retire, I tried to go part time – but my company wasn’t willing to fill my spot with a part-timer.