Your first money memories may hold the keys to your relationship with money. Perhaps your first money memories may dictate your entire financial future. My first money memory was getting admonished by my father for ordering lemonade at a restaurant. I was in the sixth grade in Kuala Lumpur. He said that instead of paying […]
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From 2020 through 2022, we went through a pandemic through brought uncertainty for all. Here is my post about taking a vacation during a pandemic in October 2020, six months after it began. I’m pleased to say my family just took a vacation during a pandemic and survived. With two young children, it wasn’t exactly
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Back in 2016, I wrote this post expecting I was going to have a daughter. Therefore, I started thinking about the various things I’d teach my daughter involving personal finance. I was nervous about how to be a first-time dad, especially to a daughter. I had one friend in her early-30s perpetually go in and
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In March 2020, we pulled our son from preschool. We ended up homeschooling him until August 25, 2021, or for 18 months. He’s now attending a language immersion school and so is our daughter. Our experience has taught us that homeschooling can be incredibly beneficial. It is more efficient and can provided customized learning for
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Getting financial aid is a common way for students and parents to afford college. This article will share how to get financial aid making multiple six figures a year. That’s right, even if you are making $200,000 – $400,000, you and your children can still get free money for college in the form of grants
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I was playing tennis with a friend who happens to be a partner at a large mutual fund company. During warmups, we got to talking about what is the right amount of money to leave our children. I told him the right amount of money to leave our children is enough so that they’ll never
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After deep deliberation, I decided to pass on buying the $550,000 Mercedes G650 Maybach. It just felt like too much to spend on a family car when I could invest the money and earn $20,000 a year in passive income forever! Instead, I bought a family car for safety first. What type of family car did
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If you’ve amassed a decent amount of wealth, you will likely want to leave some of it to your children. Let’s discuss some inheritance tips so we don’t screw up our children. Every financially-responsible adult who builds great wealth fears demotivating their kids. One of the reasons why my 31-year-old neighbor still lives at home
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If you’re wondering what’s the best age to have a baby, I’ve got some very important thoughts for you. Having children is one of the best things you’ll ever do. Children make like more meaningful. Their love will fill the household. But children are also hard work. And your happiness will likely plummet in the
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Parents looking to leave work, listen up! As someone who literally wrote the book on how to negotiate a severance, let me share with you a severance negotiation success story if you want to leave your job to spend more time with your kids. Severance negotiation success stories give uncertain employees more confidence to negotiate
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