Keeping Personal Finances Simple
Interest rates have been depressed since 2008 and have only started making a meaningful recovery in about the past year and a half. If you have not been paying attention,...
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The less of our income we give away needlessly, the more we can save. This is a crucial step in powering up our savings accounts. Like many others, my wife...
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I enjoy the 5% cash-back perk that Amazon offers their Prime credit card users on their website. It is just really nice when I have accumulated enough points to buy...
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When I used to pay for long-distance phone calls, it was always a source of stress for me when the bill came. I justified it by saying that I got...
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If I could start over, one of the things I would change is my view of generosity. This is because I have concluded that no matter what I do in...
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If you have ever taken a flight on an airplane, chances are you can recall the flight attendant’s instructions to parents, directing them to place the oxygen mask on themselves...
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If left up to us, we would put most things off indefinitely. It is easy to say we will do it tomorrow but later realize that tomorrow was a number...
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Whenever the stock markets are at record highs, I always run across people wanting to get into investing as well as trading ( See the difference between the two here.). Everyone wants...
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Investing involves a lot of risk by my standards and I think the majority of us feel that way. Since the 1987 US stock market crash (Black Monday), I found...
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In the previous post about saving, I shared how I was inspired to establish the habit. As I continued to save, I learned that I needed to guard against a...
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Whenever I hear someone making plans to spend off their tax refund, a sad feeling comes over me. It is not that I do not understand the excitement of such...
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My first paying job at 18 years old and before my first paycheck, the boss had a conference with all the youngsters in my group in what in my memory...
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As I considered the ideas I would share on this site regarding finances, I realized that contentment is one of the most important things for me to share. It is...
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