I am convinced that the cost of raising children in nowhere near what most people say it is. Browsing the internet I stumbled upon a table depicting the cost of raising a child from birth to the time he reaches adulthood in the eyes of the law. The table’s data is a little [...]
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There are a million and one ways to increase your savings. But for people like me, simplicity is essential to maintaining a long term involvement in managing money. If you make things complicated for yourself than you are never going to stick with it, because chances are you would much rather [...]
Bad planning does not constitute an emergency plan.
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As per my family’s commitment to live debt free for the purpose of changing the world we have set up an emergency fund. This fund currently contains just about three months of our household expenses, including the amount that we save each month for our irregular expenses. [...]
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This weekend my wife and I made our way over to my father’s house to help him out with some yard work. On our way there we saw a sign for an open house on a foreclosure. Drunk with HGTV madness we decided that we would stop by and check out the property [...]
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