Savings

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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It’s a buying opportunity!

We all know one way to make money in the stock market is to buy low and sell high. Over the last several weeks we have been seeing the exact opposite of this philosophy because of fear. Fear, I think, that has been somewhat inflated thanks to the 24 hour news cycle that we now [...]

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Feeling Poor?

Dave Ramsey says that being poor is a state of mind. I understand his reasoning, but most people feel that being poor is a function of your economic state and not necessarily your mental state. However you define being poor, the one thing that everyone should be able to agree on is the way to [...]

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Are you saving for a rainy day?

With the market still heading in the downward direction, I had an opportunity to discuss the impact of the current situation with some guys at work. Because I still have several years until retirement, I am looking at the market as a great buying opportunity. With a strategy of dollar cost averaging, I am not [...]

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Singing in the rain?

We all know that we should be saving for a “rainy day”, but with most people, finding a little extra money to save is easier said than done. However, not having an emergency fund is a really quick way to big problems. There are lots of ways to find some extra money to put into [...]

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