Getting Through Tough Financial Times
Main Topics
- Home
- Managing Your Finances
- Taking Control of Spending
- Helping Families Cope
- Dealing with Foreclosure
- Spend Smart/
Save Smart Tips
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The information in this website is based on the University of Illinois Extension series Getting Through Tough Times, orginally published in 1999.
Revised Strategies for Spending Less
Revised Stretching Your Food Dollar
Wrote Saving and Investing in Turbulent Times and revised Assessing Your Financial Situation and
Revised How do We Communicate with Our Children about These Economically Stressful Times?
Revised Avoiding Money Traps, Managing Your Debt (Deciding Which Bills to Pay First), and Talking with Creditors
Revised Deciding If Teens Should Work
Revised Identifying Sources of Support and Friendship, How You Can Help Mom or Dad, Helping Children Cope, Communicating Under Pressure, and Controlling Stress
Revised Bartering
Developed Dealing with Foreclosure; Revised Keeping a Roof Overhead, Setting Spending Priorities and Deciding If Teens Should Work
Revised Stretching Your Food Dollar
The following staff contributed to the Spend Smart/Save Smart Tips section.
- Karen Chan, Extension Educator, Consumer Economics, chank@illinois.edu
- Linda Crawl Jackson, Extension Educator, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program, lcrawl@illinois.edu
- Susan Taylor, Former Extension Educator, Consumer & Family Economics
- Jennifer L. Hunt, Former Extension Educator, Consumer and Family Economics
- Patricia A. Hildebrand, Former Extension Educator, Consumer and Family Economics (Serving East-Central and Southeastern Illinois)
- Debra K. Bartman, Former Extension Educator, Consumer and Family Economics
- Evelyn Prasse, Former Extension Educator, Consumer and Family Economics
