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Tips for Living on Social Security?How do seniors that live on Social Security only live on a tight budget? What are some ideas to stretch your dollar?

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Tips for Living on Social Security?How do I live on a Social Security budget?

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Sharing Expenses with a Boyfriend?I have been living with my boyfriend now for 2 years. About a month after I moved in his new child support took affect. He says he didn't know, but I find that hard to believe. To make a long story short he went from bringing home $500.00 a week to now only bringing home $120.00 a week.

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Sharing Expenses With Girlfriend?My girlfriend and I have been together for three years. She rents an apartment and I own a house, but it is in foreclosure. I stay with her 3 to 4 days a week because I want to spend time with her. I help out with food and other things. How much rent should I pay her and how much for utilities?

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Living on a Tight Budget?How do I live off of $750.00 a month? How do I budget this amount of money each month? I live in section 8 housing and my rent is 191.00 a month, but I have car insurance and car expenses. What should I save from this low amount of money

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Sharing Living Expenses with Boyfriend?My fiance and I moved into his house with his 3 children who go back and forth between him and their mom every week. They are in elementary school, but I am responsible for their care, i.e., breakfast, packing school lunches, attending school functions, field trips, homework, making dinner, cleaning house, laundry, etc.

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Sharing Expenses After Marriage?I have lived with my boyfriend and his two children ages 7 and 12 in his house, that is paid off, for several years.

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Sharing Expenses With Boyfriend?My boyfriend kinda started staying here 24/7 a year ago, for the first 14 months he didn't help pay for anything. Then, of course, me being a single mom of 2 couldn't afford to feed 4 of us so I had to use credit cards to be able to make it.

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Setting Up a Simple Budget?I am not new here, but I have a problem. I don't know how to hold on to money. I get paid bi-weekly and am trying to payoff some very old debts to get my credit back together.

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Setting Up a Household Budget?Here's my situation; I am currently unemployed and can't seem to find a job. I need help with money management. I need a budget. Is there a dependable budget online I could use to survive on 1600.00 a month?

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Filing for Bankruptcy?Have any of you declared bankruptcy? What was the experience like for you? We are possibly going to have to declare bankruptcy for our business due to husband's poor money management skills. He won't let me see the bills.

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Saving for Emergencies on a Tight Budget?How is it that I am only making $1185.00 per month, for I am on disability and I always come up short? I have done everything I can think of to budget my money to make it possible to have a few dollars to put aside for an emergency.

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Making a Budget Tracker?How can make a budget tracker without purchasing one on the internet?

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Saving Money on Your Grocery Bill?Does anyone have suggestions for ways to save money these days? I am particularly interested regarding things like, food, pet products, lotions (dry skin in winter)?

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Creating a Budget and Sticking To It?How do you make a budget and stick with it?

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Consolidating Student Loans?My daughter graduated this past summer and now owes over $100,000 in student loans. They are not federal loans and they want her to start paying $600 a month. Someone talked about consolidating them, but am scared she will be in further debt. Does anyone have any advice?

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Spending More Than You Make?Why is it, that no matter how much money I have, I spend it all? I get a disability check once a month, enough to get by on, but I spend too much every month. No matter whether it is a bank card or cash, if I have it I will spend it.

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Online Banking Advice?To help keep track of internet banking, I keep a special page in my agenda dedicated to all my banking transactions done online; date, which account, amount, and the reference number. That way I don't need to print them out and have it right beside me ready to use.

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Making a Family Food Budget?My husband and I run a small business. We are a family of 3 and really being affected by the recession. I really feel alone in this budgeting process. I do not have anyone to talk to about this, so I could really use the help. Is it possible to live on a food budget of $50 for 3 of us?

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Paying Off High Interest Student Loans?Are there any financial institutions or private lenders that can help pay off high interest student loans? My daughter borrowed just over 20K and it will take 15 years to pay off for a total of nearly 80K!

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$200 Biweekly Budget For Family Of 5?How can I feed and clean a family of 5 for $200 biweekly?

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Creating a Budget on Waitress Wages?I am about to move out of my parent's house soon. I am trying to form a budget and need some help. The problem is that I am a waitress, so my net pay can vary immensely from week to week. I'm trying to figure out how much I can afford for rent each month. Any thoughts? Thank you.

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Advice For Managing Budget With 2 Houses?Both my husband and I own separate homes. Mine was bought in 2003 for 62k @ 5.9% before we got married and his house was bought in 2006 one month before we got married for 161k @ 7.0%. What should we do since both houses are 30 yr mortgages and our combined income in 72k yearly. Any suggestions? Note: I recently invested a personal inheritance of 5k in Money market and Roth IRA. Was this wise?

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Starting a Budget?I am asking for help with my finances. Just recently I stopped working my second job because of the very long house. Now I just have one job and the problem is that it pays bi-weekly. Because I have just one income I have been behind on my bills the credit cards are at the limit and above some are in collection because of late or non-payments.

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Money Saving Tips?In a few weeks my fiance and I will be moving to Des Moines to start living in the "real world". He is graduating from college and I will be continuing my education in the area.

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Budgeting With Envelopes?I would like to know if anyone is using the old fashion method of budgeting using envelopes. I don't know how to set them up and what items to put on them. I thought this would help me control my spending and start paying on my debt and stop living from check to check.

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How do I set up a budget?How do I set up a budget? I work in construction so there is no set amount I make each week. I have tried the Microsoft Money and a couple others but usually run out of time during the week to enter all the information in.

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Should I Declare Bankruptcy?My husband and I have been married for 14 years and we have a 28k damage, 20k is all medical. I almost died and three kids and four miscarriages will do this to you.

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Legal Help For Social Security?I am wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of good legal help for social security. Does anyone know of a list of good attorneys that specialize in this type of work? Is there any sort of ranking for attorneys. I have reached my wits end and need to get legal help.

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Lost My Job, Need Frugal Advice?I have a large family, I have recently lost my job. Its really hard to find work. We only have 1 income. I was curious on what everyone thought.

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Sinking In Debt, More Bills Than Income?We have over $22,000.00 in credit card debt, 2 car payments and can't get rid of them for we owe more than they are worth, a house payment and heloc loan we got when we purchased our home for the down payment, medical bills, and the utility bills.

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How Much Should It Cost To Feed Family of Two?How much should it cost for food and basic toiletries (toothpaste, shampoo, deodorant, etc) for a family of two.

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Problems With MyFreeCheck?I just bought a program called MyFreeCheck. I registered it on line. I bought this program in order to write checks on my computer but everytime I tried to print a check it says no check marked for payment. Then I get an e-mail about hoq I have an account with MyFreeCheck.

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How Can We Stretch Our Food Budget?Hello, I am the mother of three teenagers, well one of them is only twelve, but my oldest, at only 16 is 6'5 and 230 lbs, and his dad is just as big. My problem is, although we both work, we have a very tight food budget, and I just can't seem to make it to the next payday with our food supplies. I want to cook healthy, I do frozen burritos from time to time, but that just doesn't do it. Any ideas how I can better stretch our food budget while not feeding them junk? Thank You, Tina

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Refinancing My House?Hello, I have to refinance but I don't want to. Has anybody ever faced this situation? I have credit card debt for the first time in my life and most of the time I can't sleep at night. Thank you. Eugenia

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Looking for Good Job Listing Site?I wish there could be job listings on this website. The other sites will send you emails about jobs you have no interest in or that are too far to travel. I feel it would be very useful if people could view jobs that are actually around the area that they may live. By tamsfun1

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Where do I put my savings?We finally are to a point where we have budgetted well enough to have some money to put in savings. About 100 dollars a month. What would be a good long term investment? Thanks, Alice.

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Looking for Budget Advice?I wanted to know if anyone could tell me some websites where we could go to make a budget. Something that would help us step by step. We are in the process of buying our own home, and have a child. We are new to this budget thing, considering we never thought about it until now, when everyone is saying we need to do it!

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Need Help with Expenses and Prescriptions?I am trying to find someone or organization to help me with any free items to help me. My husband passed 3 years ago. I am disabled and my medication costs me 100%. Medicare pays 80% for dr. care (thank God). I just don't have enough to meet my common needs.

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Budgeting for Entertainment?Hi, I am trying to set up a strict budget and wonder how much is normal to set aside for entertainment?

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