Budgeting & Savings

The Clubber’s Guide To Saving Money And Having A Good Time

If you’re getting ready to go clubbing again after the global pandemic, here’s a clubber’s guide to saving money and having a good time! I wrote this post back in 2011. No more clubbing for this father of two young children! In my younger days I used to go out clubbing with friends and regularly […]

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Learn From Prince William & Kate’s Reasonably Priced Royal Wedding

There is speculation that Price William and Kate’s wedding will cost anywhere between $30 million to $50 million dollars. Now that is a royal wedding! Surely, that’s a ridiculous amount of money for one day of fun with friends, family, and dignitaries no? It’s not like the British economy is doing much better than the US economy.

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Blink And Blink Again: Your Unconscious Mind At Work

It’s safe to say that before you began reading this post, you had no idea you were blinking.  Blink, blink, blink.  Whatcha going to do about it now that you are aware of your fluttering eyelids?  My guess is that your memory will last as long as a gnat, and you’ll forget as soon as

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Are The Poor Bringing The Poor And Middle Class Down With Them?

California is broke. And some would argue the poor are bringing the poor and middle class down with them. Governor Schwarzenegger declared that some 200,000 California state workers are to receive minimum wage. That’s earnings of just $15,000 a year to help shore up the budget deficit.  $15,000 is quite a salary cut from the

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Is Becoming A Millionaire The Rule Rather Than The Exception?

Are you wondering whether becoming a millionaire is the rule rather than the exception? Thanks to inflation and positive returns in the stock market and real estate market, it seems like many more people will become millionaires in their lifetimes. In fact, $3 million is the new $1 million today if you want to be

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The Emergency Fund Fallacy: It’s All The Same Money

It continues to perplex me why there should be a distinction between an emergency fund and your general savings. There is an emergency fund fallacy that needs to be rectified. If you have $100,000 in the bank, what is the difference between calling it $100,000 in savings, and splicing the funds into $10,000 emergency money

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Germany Missed An Opportunity To Save Greece & Themselves

With a GDP of US$3.6 trillion, Germany is now the largest economy in Europe as well as the 4th largest economy in the world.  Germany also has roughly $50 billion in estimated loans to Greece, a large amount, but not an overwhelmingly debilitating amount given the size of their economy.  Saving Greece helps the Germans

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