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How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt

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However, it produces a small part-time income from side-bar ads and affiliate commissions. Health Sharing Ministry. We weren’t in the market to leave our traditional health insurance plan until the monthly premiums became more than our home mortgage back in November 2016. Also, we both have side hustles.

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Are You Financially Ready For Kids?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Besides, if times get hard and you do need to work 2-3 part-time jobs , you can pull that off much easier when you don’t have to figure out babysitting and day care fees. Do I Have Health Care Insurance? . However, when a child is in the picture, you’ve got to have steady income.

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Seven Retirement Lessons Learned

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

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Disappointed in herself for not winning her doctorate, recovering from an injury caused by an attack in the service and suffering from the rejection of a divorce, she could not bring herself to look for work. Get Laid Off From Work. For 12 years she worked as an assistant to research scientists – continuing to live with her parents.