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Keep Your Spending Tidy With an Envelope System

by Tsh

Photo by Fransesca Pageo We use cash for most of our day-to-day purchases.  A lot of this has to do with where we’re currently living – not as much is online, and not many mom-n-pop stores here take plastic – but even stateside, we rely a lot more on cash than on plastic.  I’m not [...]

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A Preschooler’s Allowance

by Tsh

As I mentioned yesterday, we’ve started giving our three-year-old daughter an allowance in exchange for simple household chores. Photo by Michele Catalano I know that $2.45 weekly isn’t going to buy much more than M&Ms or a bouncy ball. But that’s not the point. The point is, we want our kids to start learning how [...]

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Personal Finance 101 – Paying off your Home Mortgage

by Tsh

This article is featured in the 153rd Carnival of Personal Finance, hosted by Money and Values. This is the seventh part in my series on Dave Ramsey’s Baby Steps, a proven personal financial plan. My goal is to explain a really solid money management plan in plain ol’ English, for intelligent yet financially “average” home [...]

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Personal Finance 101 – Saving for your Kids’ College

by Tsh

This is the sixth part in my series on Dave Ramsey’s Baby Steps, a proven personal financial plan. My goal is to explain a really solid money management plan in plain ol’ English, for intelligent yet financially “average” home managers. Photo by arnoldo O nce you start funding 15% of your income towards retirement, and [...]

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We have a winner!

by Tsh

The winner of The Total Money Makeover is Karen at Simply A Musing Blog! Congrats, Karen. I hope it blesses your family and serves as an encouragement to you. (She, incidentally, also loves triple suicide chocolate cake.) For the other 156 of you, I still highly encourage you to get it. It has been the [...]

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Free Giveaway: The Total Money Makeover!

by Tsh

This giveaway is now closed.  Thanks for entering! To those of you hopping over from Bloggy Giveaways – welcome to Simple Mom! For this season’s Bloggy Giveaways, I’m giving away ONE reader one of my favorite books, The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey. Since this blog is about simplifying the job of home management, [...]

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My Guest Post – The Beauty of Sinking Funds

by Tsh

I’ve written a guest post today over at Bible Money Matters.  It’s part of my series here on Dave Ramsey’s Baby Steps.  Go check it out, if you’re so inclined.

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