Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Credit is a tool in personal finance. Understand the risks to peer loans and you may just find one of your best tools in personal finance. Whether a borrower or an investor, you’ll find everything you need to make your experience a success along with tips on personal finance and managing debt.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 23, 2013

Check them out: Good Reads From The Blogosphere: Emily from Evolving Personal Finance is having a Debate over Outsourcing Cleaning with her husband and wants to know if you think that paying for cleaning is a worthwhile luxury. Parents of students and students- Have you figured out your plans for summer yet?

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 18, 2013

When it comes to managing your money, sometimes it has to be First Values and Goals, Then Strategies , as Emily from Evolving Personal Finance highlights. When it comes to grades and your kids, Robert at Kids Ain’t Cheap wants to know if it’s beneficial or detrimental to have a strategy for Rewarding Students for Good Grades?

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Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 9, 2021

We didn’t carry over credit card balances, we paid off our car notes early, and the interest rate on the student loan was at a low 2.75%. A student loan? Our personal finances are so interwoven with our small business finances that we view them as one. We thought we were doing really well. That’s a necessity.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 30, 2013

Emily @ Evolving Personal Finance is a user and wonders about Using Upromise to Pay Down Student Loans. Here’s how Team DINKs feels at DINKs Finance with their post for how to Save Money and Be Healthy at the Same Time. Darwin at Darwin’s Money doesn’t think so with his What’s a Stay at Home Mom Worth?

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Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 24, 2012

For our personal tax returns, I keep an ongoing "Taxes" file for any paper work that we need to support our tax deductions, such charity receipts, Goodwill donations receipts, real estate and school tax statements, year-end statements for mortgage interest, student loan interest, interest-bearing checking and savings accounts.

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Family Balance Sheet

MARCH 19, 2014

We didn’t have credit card debt, we paid off our car notes early, and the interest rate on the student loan was at a low 2.75%, so we thought we were doing okay. A student loan? But I personally don’t want to be any body’s slave and the total debt payment we make every month is astounding. A business loan?

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 13, 2014

Agree on the values and expectations you want your children to have in the area of personal finance and consistently teach and enforce those between the two of you (and clue in any significant others in your family such as aunts, uncles, grandparents and etc). Derailing them with sudden windfalls.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Also, it will allow you to more easily track your businesses finances, as well as your own personal finances. One reason is that in the event of a lawsuit, as mentioned above, you will be able to more easily show what exactly is yours and what is the businesses. Or, have you been thinking about starting one?

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 24, 2013

There were as always a ton of great reads out this week which I have highlighted below: Good Reads from the Blogosphere: Read how Emily and Kyle have helped their finances by sharing a car at Evolving Personal Finance. KK thinks you can think yourself into financial failure –read more at Student Debt Survivor.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 10, 2013

While it can’t be helped with the mortgage payment, and while I have the car and student loan payments deducted from my checking account, there are some smaller, recurring expenses that can be charged to a credit card and then discharged once a month. Remember that personal finance is, in fact, personal.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 6, 2012

Justin presents Know the Common Mistakes with Your Personal Finances posted at Budget Snob , saying, “Many people make the same financial mistakes. Corey presents Benefits of an Adjustable Rate Mortgage posted at Steadfast Finances , saying, “Have you ever considered an adjustable rate mortgage?

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

While my spouse and I were in the throes of child rearing we didn’t think much about providing an intentional or structured set of lessons around personal finance. College students are usually not mature enough to handle a windfall. The older boy held on to his, the college student was disrupted.

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Nicoles Nickels

JULY 25, 2012

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For the Mommas

JULY 23, 2012

Even prior to college, schools are requiring students to have all sorts of supplies. Credit Sesame is a free online personal finance tool that gives consumers an easy way to monitor and manage their credit and loans all in one place and save money on debt. More details: Education expenses seem to grow every year.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 11, 2011

Guest Post Author Bio: Broke Professionals is a personal finance blog aimed at the over-educated and underpaid. Join the husband/wife blogging team of Broke Professionals as they attempt to dig themselves out of a combined six figures in student loan debt. My dad has worked for nearly 40 years as a School Custodian.

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Penny Pinchin' Mom

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Taking Advantage of Investment Opportunities Saving allows you to invest without incurring facilitation fees or taking up credit facilities that will ultimately eat into your personal finance returns. Some debts like mortgages and personal loans don’t need to be paid off straight away. Bottom Line?

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Saving Everyday

JULY 30, 2012

Even prior to college, schools are requiring students to have all sorts of supplies. Credit Sesame is a free online personal finance tool that gives consumers an easy way to monitor and manage their credit and loans all in one place and save money on debt. Get a free credit score & chance to win $250 ~.

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Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

I interviewed several personal finance bloggers that have conquered their past financial goals and continue to challenge themselves going forward. Maureen eliminated $79,000 of credit card and student loan debt less than 3 years. Jessi and her husband paid off her student loans. Make it visual. goals to get us there.

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For the Mommas

JULY 28, 2012

Even prior to college, schools are requiring students to have all sorts of supplies. Credit Sesame is a free online personal finance tool that gives consumers an easy way to monitor and manage their credit and loans all in one place and save money on debt. More details: Education expenses seem to grow every year.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Author Bio: Most other Bloggers in the field of Personal Finance discuss their “Goal of obtaining one million dollars” or their “journey to financial independence and freedom.” Join us on our journey at www.brokeprofessionals.com.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 10, 2012

” Squeezer presents Instructions on how to get started in dividend reinvestment plans (DRIPs) posted at Personal Finance Success , saying, ” I give my thought processes and what to look for when wanting to invest in a dividend paying company.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 26, 2016

Each year I bring them together in my Grandma Rie’s Money Camp and focus on different aspects of personal finance, with saving being a focus in each camp. Using a student loan to get educated or re-educated in a new (presumably higher paying) field could also be a sure thing.

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Nicoles Nickels

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

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Nicoles Nickels

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

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Family Balance Sheet

MARCH 4, 2015

Besides writing on my personal finance blog, A Debt Free Stress Free Life, I’m an adjunct professor at a local college and own a residential and commercial cleaning business. in student loan debt that was a combination of my master’s degree and my daughters undergraduate degree. How much debt did you pay off? I had $50,784.35

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Nicoles Nickels

AUGUST 31, 2012

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Nicoles Nickels

AUGUST 24, 2012

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Nicoles Nickels

AUGUST 17, 2012

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Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 12, 2016

I work in Finance/Accounting for a large corporation but I have also started a company called Every Single Dollar , which focuses on personal finance for single women. I had $29,000 in MBA student loans, $14,000 in credit cards, and $13,000 in a car loan. How much debt did you pay off? How much debt did you pay off?

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 10, 2012

These days, if you spend any time on most personal finance blogs, one of the author’s main goals in life is spending less money on stuff and more money travelling. I don’t have any debt, (except student loans/mortgages) so I can afford to go. But wait, you say, I’m not one of those people.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 14, 2012

After that, while you all primed and interested in personal finance, continue and read the awesome articles that were written across the web this week regarding personal finance and enhancing your lifestyle. Newlyweds on a Budget : Paying down student loans – The following is a guest post.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 14, 2012

” Income Squeezer presents My previous job as a pizza delivery guy posted at Personal Finance Success , saying, “During the summer-fall of 2004 I worked at a local Domino’s Pizza as a driver. Let me recount the experience with you and detail what it was like working there. .”

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Savings Corner

APRIL 4, 2024

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Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 8, 2020

He was not as enthused, but he’s also not a morning person. The last loan was his student loan and I wanted him to make that final payment. I read a lot about personal finance and frugal living, two of my favorite topics, but I have not read as much about retirement in the sense of what happens when we retire.

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Nicoles Nickels

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

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