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Allowances: Teaching Teens How to Manage Their Money

by Robin Dance

Written by parenting teens contributor Robin Dance of Pensieve. My husband is an excellent financial manager.  This has proven important in our marriage since I’m partial to words, not math or anything remotely associated with budgets.  Charlie’s excellent Warm and Fuzzy Budgeting post was preachin’ to his choir. As is often the case in marriage, the [...]

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How I Budget

by Tsh

So… budgeting. Several of you have mentioned wanting to see our family’s budget. I’m happy to show you what we do, though I have to admit — it’s nothing fancy. Charlie Park blew me away with last week’s post about warm and fuzzy budgeting. He’s right — it’s nothing more than hopes, and goals, and [...]

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Warm and Fuzzy Budgeting

by Charlie Park

Written by money management contributor Charlie Park of Pear Budget. Me: “Hey, SimpleMom readers! We’re going to be talking about money.” You: “Yay, money!” Me: “We’re going to start off talking about … get excited … budgets!” You: *yawn* I know, I know. Too often, budgets are the boring uncle at the cocktail party of [...]

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A Road Map for Your Financial Journey

by Tsh

I loved reading everyone’s responses to their most common financial frustrations. I’m not saying I love that many of you have these frustrations, of course, but it is helpful for me to see where this community is financially, and how we can possibly help each other on a solid road to financial freedom. There were [...]

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Let’s Talk Money

by Tsh

Almost two years ago, I first shared some newly-found emotional benefits to being debt-free. We just sent in our last payment to finish off my school loans from college, and were emotionally high from the eurphoria of not owing a thing to anyone. Two years later, and we’re still shaking in our boots in gratitude [...]

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Plan Your Peaceful Christmas: Prepare the Budget

by Tsh

Christmas is officially 7 weeks away. I know — wasn’t it just June? It’s hard to believe it’s already time to prepare for the Christmas season, but it’s better to plan ahead now, before things get too crazy and before you know it, you’re up to your eyeballs in commitments and wish lists and powdered [...]

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Goal Checkup: Refocus Your Financial Plans

by Tsh

I‘ve written before about some of our family’s financial goals, but it’s been a long while. There’s a good explanation for this — 2010 has been an unexpected doozy. We became debt-free in early 2008, and it didn’t take us long to save up for our fully-funded emergency fund. We then saved up for a [...]

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