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How To Accept Financial Help From Your Parents Without Feeling Like A Deadbeat Loser

90 Comments / Family Finances, Real Estate / By Financial Samurai

Are you finding yourself in a difficult financial position? This post discusses how to accept financial help from your parents without feeling like a loser. Ever since high school, I’ve felt I’ve been a burden to my parents. I got in a lot of trouble as a kid and therefore felt extremely guilty accepting their financial support. …

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How To Copyright A Song And Earn Royalties: Introducing Cutie Baby

30 Comments / Entrepreneurship, Family Finances / By Financial Samurai

As a new parent, a lot of your time is spent trying to soothe and get your baby to sleep. Besides providing a constant rocking motion, one of the best ways to soothe a baby is to sing to him or her, regardless of whether you have a lovely voice or not. Eventually, everything you say becomes a song …

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The Marriage Penalty Tax Has Been Abolished, Hooray!

77 Comments / Family Finances, Taxes / By Financial Samurai

The marriage penalty tax is discrimination. But given the marriage penalty tax doesn’t hit everybody, there hasn’t been enough uproar to make it go away. Thankfully, the marriage penalty tax has been abolished for 98% of households. In the past, I used to wonder why two individuals with high incomes or two individuals with a …

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The Fear Of Screwing Up Our Kids As FIRE Parents

92 Comments / Family Finances / By Financial Samurai

There’s a fear of screwing up our kids as FIRE parents (financially independent retired early parents). If kids grow up in a nice home and don’t see their parents working, it becomes easier for kids to take money, life, and work for granted. As a parent, the last thing you want to do is raise …

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Adopting From Foster Care: Clarifying The Misconceptions To Build A Loving Home

52 Comments / Family Finances / By Financial Samurai

One of the biggest benefits of financial freedom is the ability to spend more time helping other people. Although writing about building wealth is useful and donating money is good, adopting or fostering a child reaches a next level of kindness. Today’s post is from Jillian at Montana Money Adventures. She has adopted not one, …

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Diamond Engagement Ring Buying Tips For Couples

56 Comments / Family Finances, Relationships / By Financial Samurai

A diamond engagement ring is usually a must-buy whenever there’s a marriage. The question many men have is figuring out how to buy the right diamond engagement ring and how much to spend. There are so many diamond engagement rings to choose from! If you are like most men, you will have no idea what …

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Why I Wanted To Build A Real Estate Empire

88 Comments / Family Finances, Real Estate / By Financial Samurai

In 2002, I was one year into my new job in San Francisco when I decided I needed to build a real estate empire. The dotcom collapse was traumatizing and I wanted to own real assets with more stable cash flow. After a couple years, my desire for real estate increased. I want to own …

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Confessions From A Spoiled Rich Kid

177 Comments / Family Finances / By Financial Samurai

The following is a guest post from long-time reader, Samurai Marco. It’s nice to grow up rich. But here are his confessions as a spoiled rich kid would had everything at his disposal. There are lots of rich kids nowadays since the stock market, real estate market, cyrptos and more have done so well. Further, …

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The TOPMOM Program: Single Mothers Can Make The Best Employees

18 Comments / Career & Employment, Family Finances / By Financial Samurai

The following is a guest post by freelance illustrator, designer, and writer Colleen Kong-Savage. There’s nobody more adept at getting things done like a single mother and I’m very pleased to read her point of view. American society doesn’t think very highly of mothers. Only five nations in the whole big fat world do not …

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My Fear Of Becoming A Father

89 Comments / Family Finances / By Financial Samurai

Some of you have privately inquired what’s gotten into me lately, writing so many relationship type posts. The simple answer is that I’m petrified about being a father. More specifically, I’m worried that I am going to be a horrible father to a daughter. Women are complicated enough. To add a daughter into the mix is …

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