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If You Have Started Trading, Protect Your Realized Gains from Yourself.

  • February 2, 2021February 2, 2021
  • by Carlisle
  • Investing
  • Quick thought
  • Saving

Reminder: Building Your Savings Should Take Priority Over Investing.

  • September 26, 2020September 25, 2020
  • by Carlisle
  • Investing
  • Saving

Saving and Investing Can Lack Excitement

  • May 2, 2020May 2, 2020
  • by Carlisle
  • Debt
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There Could Be Some Unusually Tough Times Ahead

  • April 4, 2020April 4, 2020
  • by Carlisle
  • Investing
  • Living
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Staying Focused During Stock Market Turmoil

  • March 14, 2020March 14, 2020
  • by Carlisle
  • Investing
  • Saving

Grow Your Savings Faster: Take Advantage of Rising Interest Rates

  • by Carlisle
Interest rates

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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    Payments
    • by Carlisle
    • Saving

    Finding Money: Focus on The Overall Cost of Each Item You Buy

    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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      Amazon rewards
      • by Carlisle
      • Quick thought
      • Saving

      Why I Have Stopped Using Amazon Rewards For Purchases.

      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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        I Should Have Never Carried Credit Card Balances!

        • by Carlisle
        debt

        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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          Be Generous
          • by Carlisle
          • Living
          • Saving

          Be Generous

          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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            Oxygen mask
            • by Carlisle
            • Living
            • Saving

            Put on Your Oxygen Mask First

            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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              How to Start Saving Without Delay

              • by Carlisle
              start saving

              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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                Financial Market Trader
                • by Carlisle
                • Investing
                • Saving

                So You Want to be a Financial Market Trader…

                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
                  • by Carlisle
                  • Investing

                  I Started Investing… Uh oh

                  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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                    • Saving

                    I Started Saving pt 2…and Learned About Myself

                    • by Carlisle
                    I started saving

                    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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                      Tax Refund
                      • by Carlisle
                      • Saving

                      Your Tax Refund is Not a Bonus Check.

                      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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                        Saving
                        • by Carlisle
                        • Saving

                        I Started Saving! part 1

                        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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                          Finding Contentment Leads To a Better Life

                          • by Carlisle
                          content

                          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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