Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 10, 2014

Small Choices Means Big Gains When Achieving Financial… What To Consider When Deciding To Buy a Home Understanding The Costs Of Home Health Care Setting Financial Goals: Make Them Smart and Simple Rent-to-Own Homes: A Way to Make a Home Sale Work. Get Organized'

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Price Rent Financial Goals Converse 209

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 22, 2011

It will take years to see a dramatic reversal of the unemployment trend that saw the US unemployment rate nearly reach 10%. For some this wakeup call came as a result of losing their home in foreclosure or their car in repossession.

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Debt Recession Unemployment Budgeting 157

Couponing 101

MAY 24, 2020

With record unemployment, applying for jobs may seem futile. Additionally, the site has a lot of resources that focus specifically on COVID-19, including tips for working from home, links to job resources by state, and more. You can even filter your results so you only see options that are home-based for the time being.

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Work Work From Home Unemployment Bulk 66

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 16, 2014

Let’s just flash back to six years ago to the burst of the housing bubble, massive unemployment, and the tumble of the stock market to crush this assumption. To buy a home under the assumption that you’ll some day make a profit from it or rely on one source of income assuming it’ll always be available to you is financially foolish.

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Emergency Fund Insurance Recession Unemployment 174

Nicoles Nickels

APRIL 8, 2012

Hunger is a real feeling for many Americans and unemployment plays a huge role in hunger…so how can we help them? Vote among 200 communities with the highest unemployment rate as determined by a Department of Labor Report (found here: [link]. I will be voting for my home community as I suspect many of you will as well.

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Walmart Unemployment General Mills April 45

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 29, 2012

It was a job as a reintegration social worker in Philadelphia (reintegration social worker is the PC title for working with adjudicated youth returning home from long term residential placement. In other words, I was going to be working with kids coming home from juvie). I needed a job. I sat down and analyzed each job.

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Insurance Philadelphia Work College 200

Saving In Akron

MARCH 9, 2011

Get home, have to take hubby to work. Had to work today so I worked at my real job until 4 when my daughter gets home. As soon as my daughter gets home, leave to pick up my stepson at the bus stop. Get home, and get my daughter ready for bed. Get a call from my husband that he needs a ride home.

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For the Mommas

MARCH 12, 2015

Her father has been unemployed for a long time and the bank is about to foreclose on their home. Theo, her lovable chocolate Lab, has been her faithful companion since she was born. But now, as a result of the Great Recession, Courtney’s world is unraveling. Soon her family will be moving into an apartment that doesn’t allow dogs.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 29, 2014

She asked for a well paying job, and was able to step right back into a management position at a major accounting firm – even after 10 years as a stay at home Mom. Tips for Surviving Unemployment Live The Life You Imagine The 5 Dimensions to a Meaningful Life. Once we figure it out, we need to give ourselves permission to seek it.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

Financial Success for Young Adults: Financing a Home Modification – At some point in your life, it may be necessary to modify your home. Paying for a home modification could cost you a lot of money, but there are ways to work up to the costs so it’s not such a bad hit on your wallet. Haven’t read it?

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November 2011 Personal Finance Finance 188

Finally Frugal

JANUARY 5, 2011

Americans have lost about $9 trillion worth of household wealth since 2007, largely because of falling home values. Most forecasters think home values will decline another 5 to 10 percent in 2011, as high unemployment causes more foreclosures and a glut of homes pushes prices down. The rout isn't over, unfortunately.

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Family Balance Sheet

MARCH 6, 2012

It could be from the stress of unemployment, a large debt load, or the amount of shoes in someone's closet; money can be an evil force in a marriage. That is a joint responsibility between the two spouses (at least in our home). Or buy a home? Although, it wasn't always that way. Do you want to eliminate your credit card debt?

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Money Financial Goals Goals Kids and Family 225

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

If you are a parent with adult children living at home with you, you aren’t alone. More and more “boomerang kids” – those that left to go to school or move out on their own at one point – are finding themselves living back home with their parents. Advantages to Having Adult Children Living at Home.

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At Home Home Parenting Rent 214

Saving Cents With Sense

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

percent unemployment rate among 18-29 year olds , being financially savvy is a skill that gets you much farther than those humanity electives you took in college. In the meantime, consider a roommate situation to pool resources and get access to better locations and larger homes. Read Up on Retirement Accounts.

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Parenting Economy Student Cars 81

Motherhood Moments

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

We have revolutionized the industry, giving commercial centers, and smaller in-home Child Care programs a platform where they can easily be found. Here are 4 shocking facts about Child Care: According to Boston University, a lack of Child Care is associated with higher unemployment among women than men. Cost of child care in Florida.

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Work With What You've Got

OCTOBER 20, 2010

I met my husband, and I moved into a home with him. My husband is less than 2 months away from hitting the 2 year mark of unemployment. I made friends who liked the same things as I did and didn’t see those things as a negative, but a positive. People who like me for me. And I like them for them. I have had problems, and hardships.

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Unemployment Psychology Target Simple 45

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Summer jobs become permanent ones; family or friends pressure young people toward options that avoid temporary unemployment. Perhaps you want (or need) to be home with family or have time for friends a certain number of hours or for certain parts of the day or year. Pick based on hours worked/lifestyle.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 15, 2011

Our Journey To Zero: Get To Know Old People and Save Money Great deals can be found in the most surprising of places, like from old people and funeral homes. Most people only think about cost of ownership when it comes to buying a car. Beating Broke: The Value of Professional Conferences Professional conferences can be exhausting.

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October 2011 Finance Personal Finance 200

Family Balance Sheet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

She and her husband paid off $147,000 in debt–including their home. About $52,000 of that $147K was consumer debt (credit cards, a student loan, a car loan, a home improvement loan, etc.) Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally? Welcome to Debt Free Stories. Where are you from?

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Debt Debt Free Pay Off Debt Financial Goals 236

Work With What You've Got

JANUARY 12, 2009

Since we don’t work, we stay home. Lately, Nathan has been doing some consulting work from home, which means that I have not really had an access to the laptop. It’s been a rough time for me. As you know, I got laid off in November. My husband got laid off in December. It was, it IS rough. So I don’t.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 10, 2017

She lost both of her jobs in the course of a month, and they consequently couldn’t meet the mortgage payments on their almost new home as a result. During the long 7 years since the crisis, many people lost jobs and houses. Even today, many are still unemployed or underemployed.

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Work With What You've Got

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

We have tried thrift shopping a couple of times recently and I have had zero luck, and the lost day (I don’t actually enjoy thrifting unless I find something) frustrates me when think about it, since I could have stayed home and watched DVDs or painted or made a necklace. I won’t be offended. This is pretty much how I feel about it.

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Work With What You've Got

JANUARY 22, 2010

As some of you know, my husband has been out of work for 13 months, so this hits very close to home. From Wendy Brandes Jewelry Blog… “I’ve got bad news for you. Blogger Janet of Je Ne Sais Quoi (also known by her blog name, iheartfashion) suffered a tragic loss this week when her husband took his own life. She needs some financial help.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 29, 2012

Allocate set times in which you will be doing required reading and completing assignments at home. It is vital that you allow enough time to continue to perform your duties at work while you are doing courses. You can’t allow your work to suffer or you might find yourself unemployed. Make a Plan.

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Full Time Work College Kids and Family 213

Work With What You've Got

JANUARY 28, 2011

I edit on my lunch break or at home. I prefer the Microsoft Photo editor. The devil you know! What is your process for taking pictures? I use a tripod (well, technically the two tripods!). When Nathan was unemployed he took my pictures with our Rebel, and I loved that. It was fast and easy and he was good at it.

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Work With What You've Got

JULY 2, 2009

When I got home last night and set about taking pictures in the back yard it just didn’t go well. You’d think after all this time I’d be able to get a good shot easy as pie, but yesterday I ended up cutting off my head in all but one picture. Such is life I guess, and really it’s not such a huge tragedy. It was mostly about the shoes.

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Motherhood Moments

JUNE 28, 2023

Built in collaboration with Timber Peg, a company specializing in customizable, timber frame homes, The Bees Knees Barn is held together by posts and beams, with no nails used in the construction - a testament to its exceptional seismic integrity. And not to overlook Gene’s attention to inclusivity, the barn is fully ADA compliant.

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Motherhood Moments

JUNE 28, 2023

America is currently home to more than 4 million youth aged 16-24 who aren’t in school or working. In addition to the possibility of increased crime, youth unemployment can cause dissatisfaction, despondency, and low self-esteem on an individual level. During the summer, statistics show there is a 35% increase in juvenile crimes.

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Work With What You've Got

JANUARY 16, 2009

since I’ve been unemployed I have had less need of them on a day to day away from home basis, but just so you know, I have a novel called “Skinned”, Nana volume 14 and the Buffy Omnibus volume 2 on my bedside right now, so I’m still a book nerd. So that’s what’s in my bag today.

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Family Balance Sheet

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The sponsor then delivers the gifts and food by mid-December to the family's home. She was recently unemployed and when we walked into her home, I could sense her urgency and relief for the food. Every time I have left the home that we sponsored I wished that I could have done more.

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Family Holiday 2005 Daughter 147

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 7, 2014

My mom was an at home day care provider. While I was growing up, my family didn’t have much money. My dad worked first as a meat cutter and then at a factory. During the recession in the ’80s, he was unemployed for nearly 2.5 We got our clothes as hand me down from older cousins or from thrift stores.

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Daughter Kids Kids and Family Parenting 242

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 21, 2014

I still remember one Thanksgiving during that period of unemployment when our church gave one of the food baskets for the needy to us. However, what I’m guessing that many don’t know is that SNAP benefits can be used to buy seeds to plant vegetables and fruits in a home garden.

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Plants Gardening Garden Home and Garden 160

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Write out what you have to spend on your home, utilities and other necessary items. What you have leftover is how much you can spend. Put some money aside for savings and food. How do you want to distribute the rest so you are spending money how you want to? You got divorced, had medical bills, or were unemployed. Life stinks sometimes.

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For the Mommas

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Growing your own vegetables at home has countless benefits. Born from the blood soaked battlefields of the English countryside during the Wars of the Roses, the Tudor Dynasty begins with a sickly boy king and ends with a Virgin Queen. Over two hundred years span the lifetime of one of history’s most notorious royal families.

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Home and Garden Grow Your Own Unemployment Psychology 40

Savings Corner

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Or you may not be able to rent the home out for as much as you could before, as incomes decline. And home prices rose quickly due in part to relatively low mortgage rates, so your rents may not be able to cover your expenses. You’ll want to weigh these risks and have contingency plans in place to protect yourself.

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Saving Everyday

JANUARY 10, 2012

I want my husband home. And with that in mind, I know the best way to honor my father is to do just that. So I have big changes in store for the site and in my life. In my personal life ~. He is DONE with this “working all over the world” stuff. I want to share it all with you in hopes that you too can learn something along the way.

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Money Work Saving Money Daughter 53

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 14, 2015

The draw of daytime telly has lured you into an unemployable abyss, to the point that you like to think of Jeremy Kyle as a mate. Find a course related to your preferred career path and set aside a few hours a day to study from home. You’ve sent out so many CVs that paper manufacturers are struggling to keep pace with you.

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