Family Finances

Three Things I Learned From My Estate Planning Lawyer Everyone Should Do

My estate planning lawyer said something interesting before I decided to hire her. “People who aren’t rich might need estate planning more than rich people because they might not be able to afford to pay probate fees in the case of an untimely death.“ Leave it to the US court system to make the distribution […]

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The Biggest Downside To Daycare And Preschool Is Not The Cost

Let’s talk about the biggest downside to daycare and preschool. The downside has become extremely apparent post pandemic. When it comes to analyzing the downside for daycare and preschool, most parents think about cost as the biggest downside. Then there is the societal pressures that come with sending your kids to daycare (not so much

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Career Or Family? You Only Need To Sacrifice For 5 Years At Most

It’s hard to be a great parent and a great employee or entrepreneur at the same time. As a result, many parents are wondering whether they should pick career or family? Something has to give. This article will help you think through both choices so you can make the best decision possible for your family.

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The Difficulties Of Pregnancy: Why More Should Be Done For Working Pregnant Women

I’d like to highlight how difficult it is to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and work while pregnant. My hope is the more aware people are about the difficulties of pregnancy, the more compassion there will be for pregnant women and moms in general. I’ve come across too many heartless folks who make pregnant women feel uncomfortable at

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A Son Who Doesn’t Love Me, But A Daughter Who Hopefully Will

I don’t think there’s enough support for fathers and stay at home dads. Men also don’t share their issues and feelings as readily as women for some reason. As a result, I’d like to change this by sharing more fatherhood stories and raising awareness about what many fathers go through in silence. This post is

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Paying For Height Is A Waste Of Money: The Many Benefits Of Being Short

There are many benefits of being short I’d like to discuss in this post. I firmly believe being tall is overrated. Unless you are a basketball player, volleyball player, wide receiver, or tennis player, there’s not much benefit to being tall. I’m 5’10”, the average height in America. If I played in the NBA, I’d

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How AOC And Other Congressional Members Can Afford To Raise Kids In Washington, DC

There are two things people seem to want more than anything else: money and power. For the sake of money and power, we study like crazy, work like dogs, delay starting families, then abandon our children once we have them, all for these two things that really don’t make us much happier. How strange we

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Wedding Spending Rules To Follow If You Don’t Want To End Up Broke And Alone

If you want to start your marriage right, then following these wedding spending rules so you don’t end up broke and alone. Given roughly half of marriages eventually end in a divorce and wedding ceremonies last for at most 12 hours in America, it’s wise to spend as little as possible on a wedding just

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The Average Cost Of Family Health Insurance Is Now Outrageously High

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average cost of family health insurance offered by companies is now a whopping $20,576 a year, or $1,714.66 a month. Employers paid for 71% of that cost on average. Meanwhile, the average premium for single workers was $7,188 a year, or $599 a month. Employers covered 83% of

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