Creating Your Optimal Financial Plan

February 22, 2010

If you can learn to master this simple method to managing your money, you will go on to live a very prosperous life. I like to call this the core and explore method. This method is all about balancing the following three areas of  your money. Living Expenses Core Explore Living Expenses At the end [...]

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Cash Only Update / Weekend Reading

February 20, 2010

If you are new here, this month I’m attempting to go cash only in a few different spending categories. My hypothesis for this experiment, was that it gets to easy to spend using just credit cards and that going cash only will make myself more conscious about my spending. A few weeks into the experiment, [...]

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Video | How To Open A Roth IRA

February 19, 2010

The purpose of this video was to show you how easy opening a Roth IRA really is. This is especially important with the deadline for contributing to 2009 approaching.

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Optimizing Vs. Minimizing Food Cost

February 17, 2010

Two months ago, when my wife and I sat down to review our expenditures, we began discussing the amount we spent on food. That month, we spent about $400, about average for us, on food (including eating out). Originally, I thought that was way too high. My wife disagreed. Her argument was, if we were [...]

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Are You Really Buying Your Dream Home?

February 15, 2010

Buying a home is one of the biggest financial decisions of your life. I’m all for having the home of your dreams, but I’m also a big believer in knowing what that home really costs you. This is a simple illustration between the cost of two different homes. One with a dining room (because a [...]

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