“How much do I need to retire?” is a question that comes up over and over again. So once and for all, let me suggest a simple, very logical and conservative method. I hope you can utilize my method to estimate how much you need to retire. Having specific retirement goals is a key to achieving success and […]
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The secret to weight loss is not more exercise. The secret to weight loss is eating less. In the process of eating less, you’ll also save more money. I wrote this post on July 25, 2009, and wanted to revisit it 11 years later. I was 165 – 167 lbs back then. Today I’m 168
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Are your spending habits out of control? You’re not alone. We are constantly tempted to spend money and splurge on things we don’t need. Clever marketing tactics, FOMO, the YOLO economy, and the desire for more have become a common part of daily life. But it doesn’t have to stay that way. If you care
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After some debate between paying by cash or by credit card, I decided to pay $750 in cash to fix my car fan instead of paying $1,004 with a credit card to get points and peace of mind. By paying $750 cash, I’d save $254 and still get a one-year warranty and receipt. By paying
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A well-written real estate love letter can reduce a buyer’s purchase price by 1% – 10%. If we’re talking about a $1 million property, that’s $10,000 – $100,000 in savings. Therefore, learning how to write a real estate love letter is essential if you want to save money on your next property purchase. At the
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When you’re young, you spend time accumulating wealth. When you’re old, you should spend time protecting wealth. Building a CD step stool to protect a portion of your wealth is a smart way to go. A CD step stool is when you buy CDs or Treasury bonds with only up to two-year durations. Multi-millionaires go
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As a frugal person and a personal finance writer, I love saving money. But there are smart ways to save money and stupid ones. I’ve put together a collection of stupid things people do to save money in this post for your entertainment. In addition, I hope you can learn from these examples to better
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Well now, it looks like some people weren’t very happy with my defense of people who like to eat out to win business or order food delivery to save time and their marriages. I’m not sure whether the true anger lies in going against the food preparing norm or highlighting the truth about how we
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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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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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