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	<title>Mommy Points &#187; Saving</title>
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		<title>Thinking About College?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a niece and nephew currently in college.  Do you have any idea how high tuition is at private colleges these days?  It is absurdly, frighteningly costly.   When my sister-in-law told me how  much money she was paying for their schools I may have clutched my chest and fallen over on the ground.
 Many schools [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buy One, Get One&#8230; House?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love those buy one, get one free sales at my grocery store.  Not quite as much as I love the buy one, get TWO free sales, but I love them.  So imagine my interest being piqued when I saw this morning that a developer in California is offering a buy one, get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank Statements</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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Some people have expressed a desire to see what the bank statements look like that we give our children.
This is a photo of one belonging to my 10 year old son.
Everything is itemized the way that it would be in a real bank statement.  He received [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Saving</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Linda left a comment in this post about encouraging her children to save their allowance by matching the money they put into their savings account.  Sort of like a matching 401K plan that most corporations offer their employees.  I like this idea.
I do wonder though if there are restrictions of how long the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Giving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was my son&#8217;s birthday this weekend.  With seven kids we don&#8217;t need to have big fancy parties.  We are our own party.
We have some traditions that we carry out with every birthday.  The first of which is a treasure hunt.  I make up silly rhymes, write them on index cards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pulled From the Comments, a Question About Allowance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jodi left this comment in this post and I thought it was worthy of pulling out for a post of it&#8217;s own.
Do your younger children understand the concept of the &#8220;bankstatement&#8221;? We are doing handipoints with 5 and 6 year old boys and I don&#8217;t know if they will understand the concept of the paper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work, Earning, and Saving</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2007 02:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week my 11 year old son bought a new mountain bike, with money he had saved from his allowance and birthday gifts.  The maturity he showed he in the store, looking at various bikes and the features the bikes had, as well as the price, was something he would not have done had [...]]]></description>
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