Life Impact

Saving on groceries

With gas prices coming down, the average family is experiencing a little bit more wiggle room in the monthly budget than only a few months ago. Hopefully, if you are able to save a few of those dollars each week you are putting them aside in your emergency fund or are paying down debt. Either [...]

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Concerned about your bank?

Because of the wild roller coaster ride we are now enjoying (read enduring) with our economy a lot of people are really concerned about the safety of the money they have invested in their bank. Each year a certain number of banks do fail, but with all of the doom and gloom coming out of [...]

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Good news – from the housing market!

If you look hard enough, you can always find someone that is ready to tell you how bad things are right now in the economy. Ok, you don’t have to look very hard at all, but if you wanted to find some good news, then that is a different story, especially when we start talking [...]

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What are you doing with your money

Since starting this blog I have been frequenting several other blogs and doing a lot of reading on what others are saying about becoming financially free. Some of the things I read I like and some things I wonder where in the world they got that idea. Occasionally, I come across a post that requires [...]

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Is it Robin Hood or socialism?

This is the first post that I have written that doesn’t relate specifically to personal finance. We teach that personal finance begins with personal responsibility and you are your own best way of gaining control of your financial situation. However, based on this comment by Barack Obama, it is obvious that he and I share [...]

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Open handed personal finance

The final step in Dave Ramsey’s Baby Steps is to build wealth and give it away. That seems completely counter to what the world would teach, but as Christians, helping others should be one of the barometers by which we measure our spiritual health. There are over 2300 verses in the Bible that talk about [...]

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