stop from Crestock Royalty Free Images I recently came across this anonymous article and was impressed enough to want to include it here. Although I know there are many circumstances that our beyond our control and that many people have been doing everything right and are still facing financial challenges, there is also much truth [...]
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What To Do When We Have Too Much Stuff and Too Little Cash
Pile of tables and chairs from Crestock Royalty Free Images Have a yard sale! In a recent post, Oprah noted that one result of the current recession is that people are re-evaluating their lifestyle and looking at their possessions differently. In the past 18 months, people have dramatically lowered spending, except on necessities. This has [...]
Read the rest of this entry »How Do You Determine Your Children’s Allowance?
When I first started thinking about this topic I looked back to my child rearing days and realized I had not a clue about the topic. The only time I can remember my daughter being motivated to earn her allowance was after she had developed bad habits that she knew I would not pay for. [...]
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Beautiful young woman shopping from Yuri Arcurs Website Through the course of my 60 plus years I have experienced various degrees of affluence. There were years when I was broke and years when I was blessed with a good income. I don’t think I was ever poor or rich, always somewhere in the middle. During [...]
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Adorable child with moneybox savings from Crestock Stock Photos This is one lesson that I did not put into practice and lived to regret. When I was young, I lived my life as if there would be no tomorrow. I certainly did not give any thought to what I would live on when I retired. [...]
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