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My budget is slowly coming along – This week, I got the needed repairs to my car and a new sticker so now my car is insured, registered, inspected and stickered. I had to get fuel oil because the weather is definitely changing to now I have a dollar figure – $675 that I need [...]

I realized this week – I’ve been thinking things all wrong. Get a handle on my money THEN have an emergency fund. I need to take on the mindset of building my savings right along with sticking with my budget. Working on my debt AND building up my emergency fund. My savings – A bill [...]

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Frugal Living Is The Way To Build Wealth! Frugal living and building wealth go hand in hand. Saving small amounts really adds up to build your wealth.
There are three things that my grandma always told me:
1) Always treat others as you would want to be treated
2) Live your life the best way you can
3) [...]

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This morning, front and center on Yahoo’s home page is the link to “Tidy Up Your Finances” an article by Laura Rowley on Yahoo Finance Six Steps for Financial Spring Cleaning. Although there was little earth shattering about Ms. Rowley’s advice – it gives a nice summary of what should be top of mind [...]

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Trent at The Simple Dollar offers up a new post on how to transition from staying in debt with car loans to paying cash for your next car.  His post is straight forward and easy put into practice once we understand it works -
I’m learning that a great deal of our money issues and [...]

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Debt Crunch and Saving for Retirement – A Yahoo! headline caught my eye today on the front page “Americans May Be Saving Too Much” so I bit and read Laura Rowely’s article on Yahoo! Finance “Rethinking Retirement Savings (Or Not)” I’ve got to say this article is totally irresponsible journalism (if that’s what such [...]

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Debt and Hope – Today at work, we made a trip to Portland to visit the dentist. Growing up in Maine doesn’t mean I know how to get around Portland very well – my directions using Yahoo Maps did NOT work. We survived (actually ended up an hour late) and made it back with [...]

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While at Single Ma’s Fabulous Financials a reader shared this article in the middle of talking about building your emergency fund. It’s a great share. CNN Money has an online column called Millionaire in the Making – today’s article is about a 36 year old single mom on her own path to financial [...]