The most important years of your retirement are the years before you retire and the first few years of your retirement. The better you prepare for your retirement, the easier it will be to organize your cash flow when you retire. Meanwhile, the first few years of your retirement is the time when you can […]
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How to Save a Little Extra Money this Summer
After the long winter it is nice to open the windows, do a deep clean, and start to organize the garage and basement that have been piling up during the cold months. You also probably notice that your calendar is starting to fill up more and more and all of a sudden, you’re booked until […]
How to Avoid Living Beyond Your Means
While penny stocks to watch may be a way to nickel and dime a little extra money into your account, it’s actually your entire spending behaviors that can have the most impact to your spending and saving. While we may want to keep up the lifestyle of friends and family that are seemingly well off, […]
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This week has been a pretty rough one for a lot of reasons. You know how I was trying to get around that 6-month rule at my job so I could get a better job sooner? They denied my exception—not because I’m not qualified, but because the job is a recurring one and they aren’t […]
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Finding the Right Insurance Products to Protect Your Family
Nobody likes to pay money for a service that has no return. That is why some people balk at the thought of purchasing insurance products. Why spend money on something that you may never use? The answer to that question can be two-fold. First, in certain circumstances, it is the law. You can’t go drive […]
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I wish that the importance of credit score was stressed to me when I was younger, even in college, and I suppose maybe it could have been, but it was the furthest thing from my mind at the time. It took me years to build credit up after years of financial responsibility, which was my […]
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I don’t know how the rest of you men feel, but I think being financially responsible is one of the manliest things you could do. Not only because I think I’m a pretty manly guy, but because being financially responsible is all about establishing yourself as a solid, dependable rock of bearded glory. If you […]
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Successful day trading is all about risk management. You can’t lose what you don’t put into the market. Some of the best move day traders ever make is to skip over that risky trade. And they learn that by getting bitten few times, so they understand what a risky trade looks like. But how do […]
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When we were all younger, most of us at one time or another watched the television show The People’s Court. Rusty the bailiff was a senior citizen that appeared to have just woken up. Doug Llewelyn was the person that would interview (try to) the people after the verdict. Judge Wapner always seemed a bit […]
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It’s no wonder the word “diet” seems to have negative connotations. It’s associated with struggle, continuous failure, and bland food. People see it as a temporary state of unhappiness needed to bring around desirable results like weight loss. There’s an entire industry based on fad diets which don’t promote a holistic or healthy approach to […]
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Key Considerations When Trading Online With Bitcoin
“When wanting to trade with Bitcoin in an online world, you need to take into consideration that Bitcoin is a currency and not a company. When trading stock online, you are investing in company shares. When trading with Bitcoin, you are actually trading with an international, virtual currency,” says senior cryptocurrency analyst at Wilkins Finance, […]
Why I Have $1.5 Million in Life Insurance
$1.5 million is a LOT of money. So when I tell people that’s how much life insurance I have on myself, I can almost hear their eyes pop. It’s especially crazy when you consider that my wife and I only have one child and no real debt to speak of (a total of about $16,000 […]