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Archive for the Budgeting Category


Rising Home Prices: What It Means For You

TweetWith something approaching a flood of recent reports all around the web, including one this morning in the Wall Street Journal, it appears that home prices are rising around the US, substantially so in some cases.  As has been said, in the short term prices are set as a popular contest, with people voting on [...]

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Rethinking My Whole Credit Card Strategy for 2013

TweetAs a part of my general attempt to get all of my spending under serious discipline this year (not that I had a major problem in overspending but I want to get truly lean and mean for this year), I recently began taking a look at my credit card strategy for 2013.  Being away from [...]

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Rethinking Paying Off Mortgage Early

TweetSo I feel like one of my intellectual strengths might be my ability to always reconsider my thoughts and opinions.  I often times play a “devil’s advocate” game with myself and try to make a compelling argument for the opposite course of action from whatever it was I thought I was going to pursue originally. [...]

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To Mortgage Payoff and Beyond!

TweetIt goes without saying that the biggest expense for most folks is housing, and in particular their sometimes giant mortgage.  While generally a blessing, 30 year loans at relatively low interest rates with qualification standards broadly open to most are a great thing, mortgages nonetheless chew up a lot of cash available for consumption and [...]

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Introducing Our Total Value Concept

TweetGoing back a few months now I have been thinking about trying to show statistically a more nuanced way to evaluate our purchases, particularly for large items that are relatively expensive and big portions of our budget.  The idea basically struck me that people will spend a fairly large amount of money on what economists [...]

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Run a Financial Tuneup in 8 Steps

TweetWith the end of the year approaching, now might be the perfect time to “tuneup” your personal finances and improve your personal financial performance for 2013.  This is often best combined with a “financial health day” off from work, which can be accomplished by taking a day off around the holidays, taking advantage of a [...]

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