DebbieV

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Real Name: Debbie Vasen

Joined: 21 May 2007 10:33 PM

Last activity: 22 Sep 2008 04:22 PM

Bio

Debbie Vasen is a published web content editor and writer, as well as a freelance writer for various print publications. In addition to blogging at Families.com, she spends most of her time as Group Editor for LoveToKnow.com. Her print work can be found at places such as NW Kids Parent Resource Guide and the Dollar Stretcher. She writes articles on a variety of subjects including everything from money to parenting and work-at-home to gardening. As a passionately frugal woman, she has energetically researched a variety of money saving techniques. An avid information gatherer with advice to share, she enjoys spending her free time writing and sharing information with like-minded souls. Debbie left a high-powered career in the business world, to work at home and be with her kids - a decision that only enhanced her need to budget and spend less.

As both a writer and a mom, Debbie knows the struggles families face. No matter how much money you make, there never seems to be enough. Let Debbie's guidance in her Money Blog help take some of the sting out of your budgets. Providing you more time and energy to spend with activities you truly love.

Debbie lives in the diverse area of the Pacific Northwest. She is a 30-something woman with a family of two kids, husband, and pet lizard. Debbie spent the first 10 years of her career life as a retail buyer and inventory manager, learning valuable budgeting skills with a large company's money. After the arrival of her first child, she gradually weaned herself from the large corporate structure to spend more time at home with her children. This period of time as a stay-at-home mom eventually opened the door to a new world of writing and editing, from the comfort of her living room.

With a strong educational background, Debbie graduated from University of California with dual degrees: Business Economics and Sociology. Essentially this combination provided her with key skills to mixing money and people. After four years of college and ten years of business employment, Debbie had learned the fine art of managing a budget centered around buying and selling, all with someone else's money. When it came time to leave it all behind, that skill nicely translated in learning how to live frugally but happily in a one-income family.