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The US Stock Market @ Rock Bottom? Guess Again…

Hey, looks like you’re new here! I blog about money. Saving, investing, insuring, getting, and using it! See my “about me” page for more info! To keep up to date, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get the blog in your email! Thanks for stopping by!I would […]

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Beware Of This Fast Food Marketing Ploy

I’m a fan of fast food.  We grew up on hot dogs and top ramen. Our monthly “dine out” night would usually take us to McDonalds or Burger King. Well, fast food providers have really done well in the past 50 years and have fine-tuned their marketing schemes to milk you for a […]

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Is Home Ownership Just Fancy Propaganda?

I’ve mulled this over for a while now - yes, I’m in the personal finance realm and am supposed to tout the benefits of owning a home, but if you really step back and look holistically at the entire process, is it in your best interest?
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Should I Use My 401k To Pay Off My Mortgage?

I got an email from a reader yesterday that asked:
“Hello Hank, I’ve been with my company for almost 20 years and I have over $1,000,000 in my 401k.  I am 45 years old and I have a house mortgage still of $295,000 for another 13 years paying about $2000 per month.  Would it make sense […]

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How Can I Make More Money?

I can almost guarantee that every person on the planet over the age of 15 has asked this question before. And there are a lot of answers for it that thousands (if not millions) of people will tell you how to spend your money if you don’t want to search for yourself. My […]

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How Do We Keep Falling Deeper In National Debt, And How Do We Get Out?

A caveat to personal finance blogging caught my eye today, GOVERNMENT finance blogging could be the next big thing, but more specifically the national debt.  This has always been something that has caught my eye and is just staggering what we’ve done to ourselves over the years, and more importantly, where we’re heading in the […]

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How To Have The Cheapest Thanksgiving Of Your Life!

So in my quest for frugality, my brain will occasionally come up with something that makes my family laugh.  These ideas did:
1.  Don’t have stuffing with all the works - have a large plat of sod from the front lawn.  It’s already paid for, and likely has some flavoring already added!
2.  Instead of going to […]

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Why do Poor People Always Win The Lottery?

I got to thinking about this today after reading Hot Air’s post about how they had to pull a lottery game in the UK because the goal of the game was in reference to temperature; more specifically, negative numbers.  People were supposed to scratch the ticket and find if they had a lower number than […]

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