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Children and Excess

{ Posted on Mar 10 2010 by admin }
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My two children are extremely blessed in many ways. Perhaps their greatest blessing is that they’ve surrounded by a family that loves them dearly and truly cares about their future in a deep, fundamental way – and I’m not ...Read More »

The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup: Single Weekend Edition

{ Posted on Mar 10 2010 by admin }
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A weird sequence of events has caused me to find myself all alone over the coming weekend. My wife is visiting her sister, while my two children are visiting their grandparents. This leaves me with two full days ...Read More »

Where Do You Want to Be In Five Years? How Do You Get There?

{ Posted on Mar 09 2010 by admin }
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I’m going to share with you excerpts from seven different emails I’ve received from readers in the last few days. Kenny: I listened to your radio discussion with Vicki Robin and I was really intrigued by the whole five year plan. ...Read More »

Mortgage “Half” Payments: How Much Do They Save?

{ Posted on Mar 09 2010 by admin }
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One frequent question I’m often asked is whether or not paying half of a mortgage payment twice a month versus paying a full mortgage payment once a month is actually worthwhile. Let’s say, for example, you’re in the situation ...Read More »

The Cult of the New

{ Posted on Mar 08 2010 by admin }
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2010 has seen a ton of books released already that I’d love to read, from The Politician by Andrew Young to The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. (I happen to be passionate about books, of course ...Read More »

Reader Mailbag: The Nascent Musician

{ Posted on Mar 08 2010 by admin }
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My two year old daughter is showing a tremendous nascent interest in making music. She sings constantly. She uses her hands as percussion all the time on her knees, on the table, and anywhere else she can use ...Read More »

Review: Linchpin

{ Posted on Mar 07 2010 by admin }
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Every Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book or other book of interest to Simple Dollar readers. The entire argument of Seth Godin’s book Linchpin is that there are no longer any great jobs where someone tells you what ...Read More »

Why Was My Credit Limit Lowered?

{ Posted on Mar 07 2010 by admin }
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Jennifer writes in: Yesterday, I received a notice from [my credit card company] that my credit limit had been lowered from $10,000 to $4,000 on my primary credit card. I was immediately worried that my credit had been damaged by ...Read More »

Ten Tips for Maximizing Your Savings at a Warehouse Club

{ Posted on Mar 06 2010 by admin }
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As I’ve mentioned many times before, my wife and I shop at Sam’s Club. It’s really the only warehouse club available to us easily (there are no BJ’s around here and the only Costco is on the far side ...Read More »

The Simple Dollar Time Machine: March 6, 2010

{ Posted on Mar 06 2010 by admin }
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Many newer readers of The Simple Dollar haven’t been exposed to the hundreds of great articles in the archives of the site, so this is a weekly series that highlights the five best posts from one year ago this week, ...Read More »
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