Savings Corner

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Maybe you prefer golf over cross-country skiing, or you just want to be near your kids or grandkids. We analyzed five broad categories across all 50 states: affordability, overall well-being, the cost and quality of healthcare, weather and crime. Diversity, wellness and culture are other strong points. 3 spot for affordability.

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Iowa West Virginia Healthcare Delaware 52

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Many well to do families have been counting on this as a way to pass along significant wealth to their next generations. First, if I had managed to convert everything to a Roth, the grandkids would be swamped with hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Your heirs will have to take all of that out within 5 years.

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Converse Taxes Grandkids Money 176

Saving Cents With Sense

AUGUST 23, 2012

Cardstore has a great selection of brand new Grandparent’s Day cards, as well as cards you can use to just say Thanks, or Thinking of you on their special day! Send a card today and become the world’s best grandkid! Add a custom message that says thanks, and I love you. All rights reserved.

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August Grandkids 2012 Free Shipping 74

Nicoles Nickels

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Well fear not! Too bad the grandkids are too small to read and execute their assignments, and I’m pretty sure my daughter is not going to take the assignment of folding my clothes! Since I have a Droid phone & tablet, I hope Whirlpool will be updating the app to work on that platform as well.

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Washer and Dryer Red Lobster Grandkids Kids and Family 75

Saving With Shellie

OCTOBER 27, 2015

My parents have this Jumperoo for the grandkids when they come visit and my little girl absolutely loved it! My niece really enjoyed it as well. This Fisher Price Rainforest Jumperoo is on sale for only $65.87! This is the Lowest Price Ever! This is a really popular jumper and is regularly $105 so you save almost 40% today!

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Fisher Price Price Grandkids Niece 40

Nicoles Nickels

APRIL 15, 2014

On a pleasant day, I like to take my dogs and grandkids for a walk around the neighborhood. Nicole’s take: I love a good smelling house and since my triplets came home we have some, well, unfortunate smells in the house. We look at all the flowers and flowering trees for different colors and shapes and smells.

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Febreze Home Flowers and Plants Home and Garden 69

Nicoles Nickels

JULY 16, 2014

I’m doing pretty well, over 300,000 steps so far. Related Stories Favorite Foods Grandkids Love of Music. But it’s all been made worse lately because I started a walking challenge. 10,000 steps a day for a hundred days. That’s a million steps! It turns out I was already walking about 4,000 steps a day on average.

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Grandkids Evolve Shoes Pace 63

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 15, 2015

In these kinds of neighborhoods I’ve found limited edition artwork, custom made flower arrangements, housewares received as wedding gifts years ago but never used and older, well kept silver plate sets. If you want to buy kids toys or clothes, look for new home neighborhoods with lots of pre-school or grade school aged kids.

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Garage Sale Garage Finds Sale 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 21, 2016

We could well afford the cost with no foreseeable problem with our own finances now or at any time in the future. I believed it would provide the chance to try new things (to see, to do, to eat). Our ideas of value differ. I was raised in a family that went on a two week road trip every year, no matter what.

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Building Kids and Family Hawaii Son 100

Penny Pinchin' Mom

DECEMBER 17, 2023

What I have found to work is that if I can access my emergency fund within 24-48 hours, it is ideal both in terms of easy accessibility and liquidity as well as inconvenient enough that I don’t get tempted to dip into it for something it really shouldn’t be used for. Here are some of my favorite long-term investment options.

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Finance Tips Finance Emergency Fund Life Insurance 52

Nicoles Nickels

AUGUST 5, 2013

When a no nonsense realtor is assigned the task of leading a struggling Girl Scout troop, she learns that there is more to life than the bottom line, and along the way she is able to instill a few important lessons in the girls as well. Enjoy the delicious Smart Cookies DVD, available July 2 at the suggested retail price of $14.93.

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Entertainment DVDs Giveaway Martha Stewart 111

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 13, 2013

We were preparing to go out of town to the grandkids house the next morning. We don’t know those neighbors very well, don’t know their cell phone numbers or how to contact them. It was a Thursday night, the 20 th of December 2012. After hanging up the phone, I went outside to put the trash bag on the patio table.

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Home Insurance Haggle Haggling 189

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The Grandkids are 9 and 12 now with lots of time before they have to start supporting themselves somehow. It felt like an important position and I found I had talents that extended to managing people and projects as well. At my Grandma Rie’s Money Camp this year, we started exploring the different careers that are out there.

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Psychology Computers Kids and Family Son 100

Nicoles Nickels

JULY 2, 2014

So now I’ve found a less well known sauce that works for me. by Debbie Welchert Related Stories Grandkids Love of Music You Know that Feeling… Pennie''s Perspective Favorite Foods' Very few ingredients, if any, other than tomatoes. It’s just they’ve done the cooking down for me.

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Food Bread Daughter Grandkids 64

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Before retiring I often wondered about life after retirement – would we have enough money , would it change our marriage, would the kids and grandkids have different expectations, what if catastrophe struck and money became an issue, what would I do, would I miss the daily interaction with the people with whom I worked for many years?

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Real Estate Money Recession Work 207

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 17, 2015

My family won’t commit to specifics very easily, but they know in general what they have to deal with, and I usually do as well. If the kids are old enough to travel well, they are probably school aged and teachers get irate if their students are pulled out of school. Find a general time-frame for the vacation.

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