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It’s Nice When Money Can Fix Your Problems

It’s Nice When Money Can Fix Your Problems

Kyle and I did something supremely boneheaded last month that cost us a pretty penny – yes, you will be reading about it on Friday in my monthly budget review.   To lay the scene, every year Kyle and I share tickets to our university’s men’s basketball team’s home games with a group of students in Kyle’s program.  We camp out together for 36 hours to enter a lottery to win season tickets and then we split … Read entire article »

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How to Help Someone Who Spends Too Much

How to Help Someone Who Spends Too Much

I put out a call on Yakezie for guest posts while I prepare for my preliminary exam, and Andrea Whitmer volunteered a post for today! Andrea is a single mom and full-time freelancer who writes about everything from finance to parenting at So Over This. She’s a big fan of  learning to make better life decisions while maintaining a sense of humor.  Thanks Andrea and I hope everyone enjoys the post!   Until a couple of years ago, I was the … Read entire article »

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Boomerang Kids, Listen Up: It’s Not All about You

Boomerang Kids, Listen Up: It’s Not All about You

I run into a variation of this statement quite often around the PF blogosphere:   “I chose to live at home* to save money while I paid off debt/saved for the future.”   I don’t want to link to specific articles, though there are many, because I don’t want to call out the authors individually.  But I want to say that this type of statement drives me up the wall!   My request to you boomerang kids is this: Please don’t … Read entire article »

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My Biggest Financial Mistake and Why I’m Glad I Made It

My Biggest Financial Mistake and Why I’m Glad I Made It

You’re going to think I’m really dumb when you read this.  You might even want to take away my PF blogger card.  My mistake was a doozy.  I’ll just say that I made it several years ago when I was just figuring out my finances and I was a lot less involved than I am now.  And Kyle wasn’t around to catch the mistake.   Summer 2007.  I had just graduated from college and started my first … Read entire article »

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