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Net Worth Report – April: $923,966.07 (a New High)

May 1, 2019

Morning, net worth lovers!! Did you open up your accounts this morning and see a nice surprise too? ;) I literally log in only once a month for these reports, so I never know what I’m going to get until I’m in there, haha… Maybe that makes me a bad personal finance blogger, I don’t know, but for sanity reasons I just can’t take the […]

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A list of the most random jobs I’ve had – how about you?

April 30, 2019

Morning! A friend just tagged me in a tweet on the different jobs we’ve had, and thought it would be fun to play along here too to get to know each other more :) We’ve all done some interesting things to help pay the bills at some point, right?! Here was the message I was tagged in: Went back to see what others in the […]

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PS: We all struggle

April 29, 2019

Found this old draft in my inbox, and thought it was worth polishing up to better contrast Friday’s “everything is great for people!” post ;) We all have our wins, but we also have many fails along the way too – and it can 100% suck!! Especially when people go out of their way to tell you so! Haha… Here’s the post just briefly edited […]

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More proof this money stuff is possible!!

April 26, 2019

Good morning! If you’re looking for some extra motivation today, hopefully these snippets I’m about to share from the community will do the trick! So many people just killing it out there, which is proof yet again that every last step you take MATTERS with this $$$ stuff… Sometimes it’s quick, and other times it takes (much!) longer than desired, but if you keep at […]

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Our decision on the 15 vs 30 year mortgage debate!

April 25, 2019

Whelp, after weeks of going back and forth on this one we’ve finally come to a conclusion! And much to my surprise, we’re going with the 30 year mortgage!! Didn’t see that one coming! Haha… But after pouring over hundreds of comments and finally having “the talk” with the wife, it just seemed to make the most sense at the end while giving us the […]

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Using Rental Properties to Pay For Your Kid’s College?

April 24, 2019

Here’s a fun (?) idea for all you real estate investors out there ;) From a friend of the blog after hearing about my 15 vs 30 mortgage conundrum, which I’ll be updating y’all on shortly… Hey J., Have you heard of the concept of using rental properties to pay for your kid’s college? Brandon Turner on BiggerPockets talks about it quite a bit. It’s […]

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Ode to Pennies

April 23, 2019

The other day I did something I’m deeply ashamed of. I saw a penny on the ground and I DIDN’T PICK IT UP!!! I don’t know what came over me (my brain told me it was dirty, but I think I was just being lazy?!), so today I’d like to confess my sins and ask for forgiveness… From both you, and those poor pennies still […]

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6 Ways to Avoid The Diderot Effect

April 22, 2019

A friend of mine passed me this article on Denis Diderot who I could have sworn we’ve blogged about before, but a quick search told me we hadn’t so I had to make sure we fixed that STAT :) Here’s the article I was passed, by one of my favorite writers online – James Clear: The Diderot Effect: Why We Want Things We Don’t Need […]

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They Can Never Take It Away

April 19, 2019

Today’s a quick tip to remind you that no one can ever take away your accomplishments. Once you’ve done something brilliant – whether in life or career, or even money – it’s yours. Forever. That time you got promoted? You earned it. That time you flew to Africa? Banked memories. Those $10Gs of debt you just paid off? Party time! Once you’ve accomplished something great, […]

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Cool Idea: Adding Life Events to Your Net Worth!

April 18, 2019

A reader sent me that nifty graph up there and thought it was worthy of passing along in case you want to add to your net worth tracking as well ;) Such a cool idea adding life events to the history, right? Since so much of it plays an active role in how our money turns out? Here’s the words she sent along with it, […]

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#Overheard at The Coffee Shop – Volume V

April 17, 2019

Time for another dumping of all the secrets I hear people say!! It really is amazing the variety of discussions going on every day at coffee shops, from people talking about God to alpacas to book clubs, bikinis, mustaches, pajamas, EpiPens, fertility, mackerels, nap taking, and even the relevance of Michael Bublé, haha… All of which is featured in today’s post – woo! And which […]

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How to Sell Your Inherited Coin Collection

April 16, 2019

Morning guys! Been getting a lot of emails about how to liquidate coin collections lately, so thought I’d finally put out a piece on it in case it helps anyone else out there too :) In a PERFECT world whoever inherits these blessings would continue building out the collection and passing it down through the generations!, however we all know it’s not the most sexiest […]

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4 questions to ask before you buy that next “thing”

April 15, 2019

Morning! Found this draft in my inbox this morning and realized I never finished it!! Not sure if that was done on purpose because it was lame, or if I was just being way too lazy/forgetful, but either way we’re about to find out! ;) It was inspired by an article on Vice’s new personal finance site, FREE, that covered the 6 questions everyone should […]

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35 excellent money quotes you’ve never heard of before

April 12, 2019

I was going to paste up a bunch of the most popular money quotes here today, but then figured it might be more fun to share some of the more obscure ones :) And I know many of these are obscure because I’ve plucked them mainly from rappers and finance bloggers!! Haha… So please to enjoy, 35 new one-liners you can add to your motivational […]

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