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We’ve heard a lot of money lessons from the personal finance scholarship essays. Readers have shared some great money habits and ways to teach your kids financial responsibility.

We talk about financial independence as a destination but often overlook the journey it takes to get there. The road to building long-term wealth and freedom isn’t an easy one.

I’ve learned is that it’s not how much you make but how you spend it. No matter how much you make, your spending habits will mean the difference between living well and barely livin’.

Just taking a look at your own financial habits and getting on track will go a long way to teaching by example and giving your kids the headstart you never had.

Sometimes the best ways to prepare your kids to be financial adults is with the little money tricks you teach them. These money tricks can be as simple as how to budget.

Kids need to be taught how to handle money, how to budget, save and invest. That’s not done in schools so it falls on parents to start the financial conversations.

Home prices and the economy are growing again and that makes home improvement worth it as every dollar you spend can turn into more than a dollar in value.

Ivetka O’Malley, a student at Maricopa Community College. She shares how her mother taught her to be proactive and how to make extra money with just a little more effort.

One reader shares how a her single-mother taught her about bills, coupons and good credit habits. Sometimes it’s the most difficult events in our lives that force us to learn personal finance lessons.

Funding for small business owners has mostly stayed within the small community banks, making it costly and time-consuming to find the best business loan. But Lendio makes it easy.