Savings Corner

DECEMBER 24, 2023

When you’re a retiree, taxes can eat into your available income and leave you with less to live on. It’s important to remember that taxes don’t stop once you’re retired, but you can take steps throughout your working life to minimize your IRS obligations later.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

According to the Department of Energy, the biggest draw on your home energy use comes from heating your home - Almost 45% of the overall cost! Even better, there is a way to extract that heat from the warm earth and use it to heat your home. Myth: Geothermal heat pumps don’t work.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 4, 2011

Everyone wants a short cut to wealth, and everyone seems convinced that there’s a great mystery surrounding financial stability and that only the most dedicated among us can escape college with our bank accounts intact. You can let that money keep growing or decide to use it for bigger purchases or investments.

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Savings Corner

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Use our Social Security calculator to estimate your future Social Security benefits. We are using 95 as our default life expectancy, which is a conservative estimate that assumes a longer life span. Annual income increase: We assume a 2% annual salary increase when averaged out over the rest of your working years.

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Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

If you are self-employed, work for a company or in an industry that is unstable, or maybe you or someone in your family has medical issues, you might want to save 6-12 months of expenses. We use an online account like, Capital One 360 (my referral link). Dinner time is stressful. 2 – Decide where to put the money.

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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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Family Balance Sheet

AUGUST 5, 2015

Hi, We’re the Gann Fam! Along our part-time business my husband is a senior web designer for Ramsey Solutions aka Dave Ramsey. We live a pretty busy lives and when given free weekends at home we love spending time at home on our little farm. It helped us see debt go down and excited us to see progress!

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

The proverbial saying ‘money doesn’t grow on trees’ is used by many a parent in denying some wished for item to their children. Earning a sub-poverty-level income for decades as a Catholic priest, he focused on his investments in his free time, and was worth nearly $1 million when he died. Genesio Morlacci.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 31, 2012

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.

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The Frugal Girl

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Today we’re meeting a reader who only found my blog a few months ago; I love that she already volunteered to do a Meet a Reader post. Tell us a little about yourself I’m Andrea, I’m in my 20s. I mostly work remotely which is very, very nice. Currently, my fiancé and I are working to pay off the house early.

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Family Balance Sheet

JULY 13, 2016

Drew works full time for Department of Defense. Farrah works part time for Department of Defense. We love church and missions work. It’s been busy with the babies and so much work/income that hobbies lately have been sleeping (if we can) and traveling. Then we re-took the class and never looked back.

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Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 20, 2017

works in outbound sales, and I teach part-time. We have a huge heart for missions work. working full time at a low-paying job and going to grad school full time, while my husband was working multiple jobs just to help us make ends meet. 2 – Used a cash budget. My husband.

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The Frugal Girl

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Today we’re meeting a reader who’s been here since 2009 (!!) Tell us a little about yourself. I currently work part-time from home, mostly behind a computer. I don’t use it much, but I have run background checks for divorced friends who are dating again through online apps. I’m 52.

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Saving Cents With Sense

JULY 13, 2013

You won’t have to travel far; odds are, you’re already pretty close to one of the best small towns in America. If you’re looking for the adventure of the Wild West, it lives on in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Guest post by: Gloria is a stay-at-home mom and part-time fashion blogger. This site uses affiliate links.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 29, 2011

I’m not sure I have the greatest answer to that, but here are some things we tried that did NOT work out for us – at all. We converted the non-working shower off our bedroom into the incubator/baby quail chick spot. It kept me busy and out of trouble, used up a lot of stamp money, but never yielded a dime.

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The Frugal Girl

JANUARY 29, 2024

We’re meeting an Arkansas reader today and initially, I thought she was the first one! Tell us a little about yourself Greetings from the NW corner of Arkansas, where I was born (around 40+ years ago) and raised. We use the eggs, harvest meat & if I can’t get out to hunt venison we’ve had friends give us meat.

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Saving Everyday

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In this post, we’re sharing real ways to make extra cash for the holiday season! The holidays can be stressful, especially if you’re already struggling financially, so let’s discuss some legit ways you can make money to help ease the burden. Finding legit ways to make money for Christmas can be frustrating.

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The Frugal Girl

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Tell us a little bit about yourself. I’ve been teaching part time for over 25 years. I like to bake and read, and I spend time chauffeuring kids to activities and games. I volunteer at my kids’ school at lunch time and other events. Highly rated, easy to use, and it sits gathering dust.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

For so long, we plodded along with next to nothing while our neighbors were running up their charge cards and using home equity loans to take vacations. We shopped at garage sales, turned down the heat, combined errands to use less gas, didn’t buy a lot of prepared food, cooked at home and the like. Peggy: Oh yes!

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Family Balance Sheet

JULY 9, 2015

With that much success, these people are a wealth of information, so I poured over their content and realized that there was no magic pill, or snap of the fingers, just HARD WORK. Everyone had unique motivation for working towards debt freedom: Jackie and her husband were sick of the stress that goes along with money issues.

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Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 22, 2020

However, it produces a small part-time income from side-bar ads and affiliate commissions. This side hustle income was mainly used for the fun stuff, such as camping, home renovations & repairs, and needs for our kids. We’re no spring chickens, so in November 2016, we started contributing again to our retirement.

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Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

It wasn’t that we had friction over money in our marriage, but as the business & Family Office Manager , I had taken on the stress of that cash flow crisis and tried to work it all out by myself. This new strategy had us looking in the same direction with regards to our financial future and my husband was on board.

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