Upgrading Your Home: Want vs. Need
Posted on August 22, 2007 - Filed Under Real Estate, Loans, Home Savings, Relationships and Money, Financial Planning, Spending | 5 Comments
How do you know when it is time to upgrade your house? The average length of time spent in a home seems to have decreased over the years. I know very few people my age that do not move a few times before settling down, along the way buying and selling a couple of homes. […]
Read More..>>Book Review: Affluenza - The All-Consuming Epidemic
Posted on August 14, 2007 - Filed Under Book Review, Net Worth, Relationships and Money, Saving, Spending | Leave a Comment
After seeing some other personal finance bloggers churn out book reviews like machines, I figured it was my turn to give a critique of a few of books. I will be posting more book reviews in the future, but today I just got finished with Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic.
Affluenza is defined as “a painful, contagious, […]
How Much Is Enough In Silicon Valley?
Posted on August 6, 2007 - Filed Under Relationships and Money, Net Worth, Financial Planning, Saving, Income, Spending | Leave a Comment
For many Silicon Valley millionaires the sky is the limit. Their neighbors drive six figure cars and live in seven figure houses. Keeping up with the Jones’ in Silicon Valley has become out of control. In this weekend’s NY Times article entitled “In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don’t Feel Rich”, the working class of the small […]
Read More..>>Listen To Dave Ramsey For Free
Posted on June 25, 2007 - Filed Under Relationships and Money, Financial Planning, Saving, Spending | Leave a Comment
I recently stumbled across this website that will allow you to listen to Dave Ramsey for free by downloading or streaming. I have found Dave Ramsey show to be entertaining as well as educational.
Read More..>>Checking Your Significant Other’s Credit Score
Posted on May 8, 2007 - Filed Under Credit Report, Relationships and Money | 2 Comments
I just got done reading Cap’s post titled Tuesday Train Wreck - The Financially Challenged Husband and it made me curious as to when other couples begin to talk about money, and go so far as to show one another their credit scores/reports. Having just moved in with my girlfriend a couple of months ago we have […]
Read More..>>Common Reasons For Couples Finance Problems
Posted on April 28, 2007 - Filed Under Relationships and Money | 1 Comment
There are many reasons money is so difficult for people in a committed relationship. For a 20-something person in their first relationship where they are sharing everything about themselves, finances are often the last thing discussed. A few of the reasons for this I have seen is:
Money is personal. We are not use to sharing […]
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