The best rewards credit card was the Citi ThankYou card. Let’s review the best rewards credit card a little further in this post. The main reason I opened a relationship with Citibank in 2001 was because they are an international bank with good customer service. I use to travel overseas twice a year for my […]
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Can you blow through $100,000 like a rock star? Jacob over at I Heart Budgets blew through $100,000 before he was 21 like a rock star. I remember having jack shit between the ages of 18-21 as I drove around in a beat up Toyota Corolla with one shiny driver’s side door because my friend
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Taking money for granted is easy to do when times are good. After a global pandemic, perhaps we are much more appreciated of money! I considered my paycheck to be “endless money.” Every other week I got paid for a service that I provided a company. Given I saved the majority of it, I began
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Every now and again, I receive criticism from folks who believe saving 50% of one’s after-tax income is too onerous. With such little income left, one turns into an impecunious soul who doesn’t have enough “fun.” While I do appreciate my critics elegiac responses, rest assured my heterodoxy is not without merit. For the past three
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Author Romeo Clayton of How We Prevent Wealth is hosting a challenge for all of us to figure out how much do we exactly need for retirement. He calls it “The Wealth Number Challenge” where we input our current age, savings, rate of return, current tax rate, annual contribution, years during retirement and more to
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Prodigious savers of the world, unite! From the post, “How To Retire Early And Never Have To Work Again“, I mention I’ve saved roughly 15-18 years worth of living expenses after saving 55-75% of my after tax income every year for the past 13 years. If you do the math and follow the chart in
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Despite the government saying the economy is better and jobs are plentiful, you know they are lying. How? Because there are still grown adults living at home with mom and dad! If you’re in that camp, this post has some helpful tips on how to get boys if you live at home. If you aren’t living
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Is it sad to say that only until I started this post did I realize Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving? No, seriously, I had no idea, which means that I never buy anything on Black Friday because I’m working or up in Tahoe baby! Could there be anything more silly than taking a
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What would you do with $250,000 right now? Imagine waking up one morning to see a Genie at the foot of your bed with milk and cookies. She grants you the wish of converting your future earnings or current illiquid net worth into $250,000 cash. For example, say you were to work for 20 more years
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There’s only been one bank that has consistently treated me like cow poop all these years and that’s Bank of America. When I saw its shares dip to $6.5 (-45% YTD) during our S&P downgrade meltdown, I couldn’t help but wonder whether it was just karma striking back. Granted, Bank of America has some wonderful people working
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