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The honest advice is difficult to hear, but it’s almost always the most useful.
For years, I was always a little too blunt. My mom told me that my brutal honesty affected my personal and professional relationships. It is a character flaw, and one that I’m still working on. It’s not that the advice is not [...]

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Many people have a plan to deal with accidents, but where they fail is in actually testing them to see how well they work.
If you built up an emergency fund, that’s great. But, do you actually go through the process of simulating an emergency so you know what to expect when you actually need the [...]

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The global recession we are going through affected many people. In fact, it is stated as one of the worst recessions to hit the world since the Great Depression. Now I’m not sure about you, but I definitely don’t want to witness, let alone be a part of the next great depression. What’s done is [...]

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Even though we like to think of the holidays as a time of fun and family, the truth is that there is also a great deal of stress attached to this time of the year. From entertaining to buying gifts to travel, the stresses on your budget can cause anxiety and worry during a time [...]

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Do you find that your money philosophy is different than your wife’s (significant other)? Well, I do.
Steve recently sent in an email with the following question:

I recently got married. My wife and I are working on our future finances. I am aggressive and she is conservative when it comes to investing.
Example: Her money is [...]

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What I love about personal finance is that everyone is in an unique situation. Yet, the more they are different, the more they stay the same.
What’s more interesting is that even though the majority of us struggle to achieve financial freedom, the methods are simple and for the most part, we already know them.

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When I was growing up, my parents would get the urge every once in awhile to impart money management skills to my siblings and me. They would experiment with different systems for dispensing allowances and organizing income, but most failed due to the lack of discipline on both their part and ours.
 
Not every system was [...]

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He told me he had a gun, but it turns out to be a friendly neighbor trying to do some good.
To say that perception is important just doesn’t do the term justice. It is the sole contributor to our decision to purchase, and the reason why some of us make more money than others. [...]

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Before you read the following piece, please answer this first – do you think women or men spend more money? Does the thirst to buy have anything to do with our sex orientation? What to do you think?
I used to wonder why some stores are successful without any decoration, while others spend a [...]

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When I was in Canada where the sales tax was 15%, my dad taught me a simple way of calculating the ridiculously high government sales tax. Take 10% of everything you buy, add an additional half of the result and that’s the taxes you are paying. Now, add that on top of the [...]

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