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April 2010

Financial Goals: Can You Have Too Many at Once?

April 14, 2010

A fellow reader just asked me this, and I thought I’d respond here instead of emailing her back. I’m not too sure my opinions are necessarily right here, so I’m relying on you all to help get the discussion going :) Can you have too many financial goals? I say yes and no. As well [...]

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Our Neighbor’s House Is For Sale!

April 13, 2010

I can’t believe it, someone’s actually selling a house in our area instead of foreclosing! The heavens have opened and are smiling upon us ;) It sounds sad, but seriously – this gives our neighborhood so much hope. We’ll actually be able to tell what our houses are WORTH now since they’re pretty much exact [...]

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Book Giveaway #4 – The Power of Less

April 13, 2010

Today’s giveway is special to me for a number of reasons. First, because I’m a HUGE fan of minimalism and simplifying our lives. Secondly, I’ve actually READ this book (shocker) and it’s one of my all-time favorites!!! (not shocker) And finally, because my boy David Damron is giving them to me FREE to give to [...]

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Where have you gotten the best financial advice?

April 12, 2010

From the media? Friend? From this blog? (hah!) I’ve never really thought about it personally, but I saw a poll asking this in April’s issue of Money Magazine and thought the results were pretty interesting: Where have you gotten the best financial advice? 34% The Media. This scares me for some reason :) It makes [...]

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Book Giveaway #3: The Hero with a Million Dollars

April 11, 2010

Got 4 of these books to give away – so be sure to enter! The winner of last week’s The Other 8 Hours giveaway was Edward – congrats! The Hero with a Million Dollars: Follow the Path of the Hero to Wealth, Success and Financial Independence Here’s what Amazon says about it: The Hero with [...]

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Your Take: Who Pays the $200?

April 9, 2010

So I’ve been listening to a lot of talk radio in the mornings lately, and today a strange financial situation came up and I thought it would be cool to see how you all interpret it. The callers to the show seemed to be pretty 50/50, but to ME there was really just ONE clear [...]

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Weekly Roundup: Bad Habits, Memos, and McNabb!

April 9, 2010

Another Friday down, another week’s worth of making dollars! And hopefully “living” too ;) I can’t say I’ve been any better about sleeping more or not hustlin’ as much, but one of these day’s I’ll have all these tasks on lock. Or at least one hopes. Here are some cool articles I ran into this [...]

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Our Taxes Are Done! Our Taxes Are Done!

April 8, 2010

It only took us 3 months too ;) Wow though, what a sigh of relief…I’ve been stressing about this for 2 months now and the worst part about it was that I couldn’t do anything to speed it up!  I wish I could state why, but you’ll have to take my word for it that [...]

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Net Worth Update: March – $151,355.70 (holler)

April 7, 2010

Updates like today’s are exactly why tracking net worth can be exciting – we’re up $15Gs! And I would have had no idea too had we not been tracking all this stuff ;) Granted, we’re heavily invested into the stock market so it fluctuates quite a bit, but the point is we have a solid [...]

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Reason #211 Not to Have Car Payments

April 6, 2010

When your car starts breaking, you actually don’t mind paying to fix it! :) I just dropped $270 on new tires and alignment and it is a-okay in my books, friends.  The longer I can keep my ’93 Caddy on that road means the more money I can sock away until I have to get [...]

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