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Five for Friday! – January 30, 2009

After being late last week on my Five for Friday post, I wanted to make sure that didn’t happen again. So I set a goal, and I achieved the goal. As a matter of fact I actually finished it early due to staying home one day because of bad weather. Here are my five picks [...]

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Meanest Parents in the World!

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about our effort to teach our children good financial practices in an effort to keep them from repeating some of the mistakes that my wife and I made early in our marriage. The idea of living on less than you make and saving are very basic and should [...]

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Teaching your kids about money

What one thing do you wish you could change about your financial situation? Have you given your children the knowledge to make sure they don’t fall into the same hole? Are you teaching your children the importance of saving for purchases? What about when you go out to the store, do they have certain expectations [...]

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Teaching the kids

What are you doing to teach your children about personal finance? Do they know the importance of saving for things they want or are you teaching by example and leading them to believe that the credit card is the answer to all of your wants? “Reading, writing, arithmetic” — too bad that list doesn’t include [...]

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