The Money Life Network’s “Summer Savings Series” #3 is courtesy of our beloved power companies. My bill is usually around $200 since I’ve lived here, and I can certainly keep the bill a bit lower just by checking on a few key things…
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June wasn’t as bad as the numbers make it out to be. Yes, I lost about 3k on the net worth, but I bumped up my 401k contribution to 15% this past month along with my wifes. The 3k loss can most likely be contributed to the landscaping addition I tacked on that […]

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So I live in a pretty decent sized house in a cookie cutter neighborhood. We were the last house to be built in the subdivision, and they weren’t even sure they were going to squeeze us in, but they did. In so doing, they gave us a pretty tiny yard, but with my […]

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The week was a busy one on the “normal” front so I didn’t have time to write out the posts for the next week, but I still had some good posts in waiting that kicked off a good week of reading including A Deeper Look at Late Payments and FICO Scores by Barry Paperno, One […]

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The Summer Savings Series is warming up, and you’re in line to win some cash in the process! It’s easy to enter and be a part of the series and bring home some Summer “green” of your own!
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Who would have thought that there’d come a day when 1MIL would officially “not be what it used to be”. According to Yahoo, it happened a while back because the new elite number is 10MIL minimum! How can this be, and how much further are we going to have to climb with inflation?
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While anyone can tell you that late payments will hurt a credit score, what most people don’t know is that there are subtleties in just how the FICO scoring formula treats one late payment from another. For example, some typical questions about late payments are…
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We all know the importance of financial well-being, yet many of us are self-taught when it comes to figuring out the best way to manage our expenses, grow our savings and learn how to invest for the future. But what about our kids?
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So CreditWithdrawal tagged me with this a few weeks ago and I’m just getting to it now, but better late than never. The point of the post is to define a time in your life when you were handed lemons and made lemonade. If you’ve never heard the analogy it basically means explain […]

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