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Kids and Money Management

  Here are links to six great articles for teaching children to manage money with easy to implement tips for all ages from toddlers to teens.   Teaching children how to manage money is a  gift that will have a lifetime of benefits!      Teaching Your Children How to Manage Money — Simply Real […]

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5 Easy Steps to Organizing Your Financial Life: Part 5 Be Prepared

Organize Your Financial Paper Series:    Use the documents gathered for filing your income tax return in Part 1 to prepare for emergency in Part 2, to set financial goals and plan ahead in Part 3.   Part 4  helps you  build a budget. What happens if you find yourself without any of the paper work that […]

Organize Your Financial Life: Develop a Spending Plan

 Welcome to A Pinch of Joy!  This post is part 4 in a series on using tax documents to organize your financial life. We began this series by gathering  documents  for tax preparation in Part 1 and each week  added a bit more information.  In Part 2, the papers helped prepare for emergencies.  In part […]

Organize Your Financial Life: Plan the Life You Want

Part 3  Plan the Life You Want: Getting Started by Setting Financial Goals How to lead the life you want to have.  It only takes a bit of financial planning to shape things so that our life is lived proactively and we can have more of the things we want.  We all get thrown a […]

Organize Your Financial Life Part 2 — I.C.E.

  Whenever we travel by car, Wheels adds a pair of rubber boots to the cargo.  Weather insurance, he says.  If he has them along, it won’t rain.  You have to know their twisted sense of humor to get the laugh out of that statement that he and Bytes do – but it has worked!  […]

Organizing Your Financial Papers – Part 1 Preparing for tax time

Part 1 –  Preparing for tax time Running a family is very much like running a business. We make projections,  purchases, plans and provisions for the future.   In order to do those things,  we need basic financial information.  Without it, we are operating in the dark, missing who knows what opportunities.  Every family needs […]