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Preparing for a Financial Crisis

With all the uncertainty in the stock market and the world economy, it is time to make some changes to our family’s finances. Nobody knows what the stock market is going to do in the next several months. My gut feeling tells me it has a lot further to drop, despite any recent [...]

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Monthly Budget – August (2008)

The Family Budget
For a second month in a row, the monthly family budget post is extremely late! I have finally finished calculating the results of our August (2008) monthly budget. This is one of the most time consuming posts that I write on PFI and one that I don’t look forward to writing. [...]

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Monthly Budget – July (2008)

The Family Budget
Although this post is extremely late, I have finally finished calculating the results of our July (2008) monthly budget. We came in under budget once again, but are inching closer to the break-even point, which I am starting to become concerned about. Unfortunately, we are having an issue controlling our Grocery [...]

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How I made money Shopping at Pharmacy’s

Last week I wrote a post that provided a list of alternative income streams that I am currently using or plan to use in the future. One of those income streams was to Shop at Pharmacy’s and make money. How can you make money shopping at pharmacy’s you may ask? I thought [...]

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Revisiting house guests and added expenses

Well our house guests (the in-laws) who visited us for two weeks are now gone back home. It was a nice visit and our family budget withstood the added expenses that I posted in a previous article found here – Preparing for House Guests and added Expenses. Today, I would like to revisit [...]