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Our 2018 Financial Goals

Family Balance Sheet

We’ve been researching what we want in the trailer and we want to pay cash. I want to challenge myself to rethink our purchases by taking advantage of more cost effective solutions, like borrowing, buying second hand, or just making do with what we already have. We’d like to start saving for it in 2018, if possible.

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Yes Virginia, There is a Money Tree

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

This retired teacher spent a lot of time researching companies at the Boston Public Library. You have to stay healthy and motivated for many years to grow a money tree. We don’t panic because we know we can make do with out the investment money. Upon his death, he shocked the library by leaving it $6.8 Jay Jensen.

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Saving Tips & Free Crediting Monitoring

For the Mommas

If you’re still worried you’ll break your resolution, consider motivating yourself by money. Do you really need cable television or can you make do without? However, according the Journal of Marketing Research, consumers often go about paying their debt down the wrong way – and it can cost them in the long run.