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Financial Calculators That Show How You Blow a Fortune Without Knowing
Before settling down to read this post, please keep any hot beverage away from you that may spill, get some smelling salts, and ask a friend to check in on you. I was in my office at work with the door closed, yet someone next door was still able to hear me yelp, “What the…
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Emmitt Smith Does the Real Estate Dance
“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.” — Wayne Dyer Jeanine and I love our accountant. We only see and talk to him once a year, even though he promises to call Jeanine to play tennis after the conclusion of every tax season. The artificial invite is probably just…
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WWYD: Revealing How Much Money You Make
So how come you’ll never hear a talk-show host ask a movie star how much money she made on her latest film? Because money is still considered one of those taboo topics and it doesn’t play well on the circuit of celebrity chatter. But what if we bring the topic closer to home. If someone…
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Paula’s New Book – 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, Volume 3
It is rare for me to toot my own horn here on this site, but I wanted to take a second to share with you this new book. I have the great privilege of announcing the launch of a new book of which I am a co-author. I share this not just because I’m excited…
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Being “Middle Class” is burying us!
Following on Paula’s excellent and provocative post, “What Class Are You?” I wonder what we do to ourselves when we’re not honest about what class we’re actually in? For example, what happens when we think we are middle class, and try to behave middle class, but we’re not? I personally experienced this earlier in my…
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Your Money vs. Beauty, Style and Celebration
If anyone ever gets the idea from me that developing a more responsible relationship with money has been easy, I must do more to present a realistic picture of the constant work it takes to take control of my money. With each daily struggle I face, I’m forced to pay attention to little nuances that…
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Credit Cards – No Signature Required
In this day of identity theft and concerns about security I find it stunning that you don’t need to sign your credit card at a store. On Sunday Kim and I were at Home Depot getting supplies for our bathroom painting and repair fest. We buzzed through the checkout with around $50 worth of stuff,…
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Rules of Engagement on Television and In Real Life
“We shall stand or fall by television, of that I am sure.” — E.B. White In my single days, I lived without television. I had a TV but it was on a metal cart (the kind once found in a 1950’s doctor’s office) and I would roll it out of the closet on the occasional…
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The Dismal Savings Rate in America
“The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.” — Thornton T. Munger On Friday, the headline screamed: Savings Rate Falls to Lowest Since ’33. The LA Times reported, “Americans again spent everything they made and then…
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Gay-friendly Investing
Last month I wrote a series on Investing 101: general principles for how to (relatively) safely build your assets. But I didn’t really address the nature of the companies you would be investing in. In the last 20 years, there has been a rapidly growing interest in “socially responsible” investing. Many people, including me, are…
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