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Habits and actions greatly affect one’s wealth, but why listen to me talk about it when you can just see for yourself. Are we frugal or not? You be the judge.
Our Afternoon
1:30ish pm, at our apartment.
David: Let’s go look at houses today, honey.
Emma: Okay!

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We know that public education today is short on the subject of financial literacy, so unless parents are teaching kids about finances, many youngsters are finding out about good financial decisions the hard way — through making mistakes. I just turned 30, and I wish I had done quite a few things differently. The following [...]

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The big news right now is health care reform. On a practical level though, most of what is being done with health care reform is purely cosmetic. And besides, a lot of what is being done won’t actually affect you immediately. In the meantime, health care costs continue to rise. USA Today reports that PricewaterhouseCoopers [...]

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If you don’t buy it now, the price will go up.
Sales people love limited time offers, because there aren’t many ways to get a customer to make a purchase faster than telling them that the price will be higher if they buy later. But for a customer, is it worth it to say yes?

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If you are a chronic dieter, you know that long term, diets don’t work. You do really well for a while, pushing to lose the weight, but once you reach your goal, you gleefully go back to the habits that got you in trouble in the first place. I know. I’ve been there. In order [...]

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Sometimes, it’s difficult to get a sense of what people in other countries have to deal with. Luckily, the guest post today addresses this, even in a very small scale.
A massive stimulus plan, reduced consumer spending, increased unemployment – we aren’t just talking about the United States here. The effects of the American financial [...]

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Once you trade up, you are never going back.
Lifestyle inflation is a real phenomenon that I’ve surprisingly seldom talked about. Basically, it refers to the strikingly true fact that most people increase their spending as their income increases no matter how much or how little they earn.
Stepping up the standard of living ladder is [...]

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We all deny having any, but we all know everyone has some. Guilty pleasures can sometimes be money pits but many of us usually find excuses to get/own/experience them anyway.
According to Wikipedia, it is defined as:

Guilty pleasure, something one enjoys despite feeling guilt for it

So let me ask you today. What is your [...]

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A hot agenda in the Obama camp these days is the up and coming health care reform. Yet for some reason, the media isn’t giving it the needed attention it deserves. Did you know that the cost of our health care system is the most expensive in the world? Let’s explore this [...]

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Happiness is Free

by MoneyNing · 8 comments

More often than not, the times we cherish the most don’t involve dollars and cents. It isn’t an earth shattering discovery of course, but one that most people forget all the time. Instead, we try to buy our way into happiness. Oh that iPhone will do. That expensive glass of wine [...]

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