Personal Finance Review – Save While You Can Edition
November 11, 2007
Oh to be young again! As I visited my Alma Mater this weekend to cheer on the soccer team in an important post-season game I couldn’t help but catch some of the conversations of the students around me in the stands. Their plans and concerns are much the same as mine were ten years ago […]
Who Do You Trust With Your Home, Auto, Family, & Health?
November 10, 2007
How do you know if your mechanic really changed your oil? Did they work on your alignment, or just say it was fixed? I’m not a very car savvy person so those thoughts crossed my mind today as I picked up our Honda from the shop. Luckily, I’ve found a trustworthy mechanic so I feel […]
Time Is Money
November 9, 2007
What’s the one thing you never seem to have enough of? TIME. Time is a scare resource, you can never make more of it and it’s constantly slipping away. This scarcity and non-renewability is what makes time worth money. We’re often forced to spend our valuable time on things we don’t deem worthy of our […]
Extreme Investing for the Adventurous In All of Us
November 5, 2007
You’ve probably heard of extreme sports, sports “perceived as having a high level of inherent danger or difficulty”. Well how about extreme investing! Extreme InvestingI’m a pretty non-extreme investor in general; most of our money is in index funds with a small percentage in other industry specific funds. But I do like to use a […]
Personal Finance Review – Money Sucks Edition
November 4, 2007
Do you ever get discouraged and decide that money just sucks? We have to work so hard for money and yet it seems we never have enough of it. We’re trying our best to build up money but everyone else seems to be working equally hard to take it away. So many of our decisions […]
Why Are Some People So Ignorant About Money?
November 1, 2007
Some people are good with money and others make downright horrible financial decisions. What’s the difference between the two groups? Why are some people so bad with money? My wife was watching Suze Orman give people advice on credit card debt and home loan issues last night on Oprah and I was amazed at how […]
Juggling Funds So Our Mortgage Check Won’t Bounce
October 30, 2007
Ever since my wife left her full-time job to stay at home with our son our bank account has looked a lot more bare towards the end of the month. Losing a salary has required us to pay better attention to our nickels and dimes so we can ensure all expenses are covered. Bye-Bye BufferMy […]
Seven Major Obstacles to Financial Success from the Quiet Millionaire
October 29, 2007
One of the most important steps towards building wealth is learning what NOT to do. If you can avoid the biggest pitfalls then you have a much better chance of being successful. As I read through the Quiet Millionaire I ran across a list of things that can be damaging to our personal finances. I’ve […]
Personal Finance Review – Count Your Blessings Edition
October 28, 2007
When you’re healthy, you can forget how bad it feels to be sick and how fortunate you are to be well. I guess that’s the one positive thing that comes out of this miserable sinus infection that is still hanging around. It makes me appreciate my health all the more and realize I shouldn’t complain […]
The Quiet Millionaire – What is Important about Money to You?
October 22, 2007
What is a Quiet Millionaire? I’m not exactly sure yet but I imagine I’ll figure it out as I read the book the Quiet Millionaire – A Guide for Accumulating and Keeping Your Wealth by Brett Wilder. The publisher sent me a copy of the book to review and I broke it open this weekend. […]
