Featured Article

Hey everyone, feel free to go check out my article that is posted over at Moolanomy.  It’s an article about living in the city and ways to do it on a budget.

Other great news is that I finally got a house.  It felt like it took forever, but in reality it was only 6 months. [...]

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Gardening with less

So I might not be a plant expert, but I have put my fair share of plants in the ground and had them live, survive, and thrive so I like to think that I am somewhat decent at putting together a flower bed.  The flower bed I built was from the ground up.  I had [...]

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5 tips to get ready for summer

If it isn’t hot already, it will be. Considering I’m in Texas, it’s been hot for a while and I couldn’t be happier with the awesome spring we had this year. With the summer season upon us, let’s jump on a series of things that need to and should be done in the summer. I [...]

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Understanding Averages Part 2

Have I mentioned that I like averages yet?  Probably not, but then again, if you don’t look for the average or mean gain when you are looking at stocks or funds for a lifetime, then you aren’t looking for anything long term in the least.

There are a few main ideas that you can use when you [...]

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Understanding Averages part 1

I am a big fan of averages.  Why is that you might ask?  When you do something several times, you start to see a pattern normally of some type.  After you see this pattern several times you can think of it as the average pattern to be seen.  You can use this knowledge of patterns [...]

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Choosing a mutual fund

Here is how I went about looking for a new fund to put my money into.  I started off by looking for some good basics.  I was a little surprised with what I found.

When you hear that interest rates are dropping, it is normal to expect bond yields to rise.  Why would you want to [...]

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Learning about cash flow

I heard a radio ad the other day for pay day loans.  In the ad the lady talks about how she ran into a few unexpected expenses and needs money for right now.  So in theory when you make money, you can spend it normally.  When you have an extra expense, take out a loan, [...]

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Budget Busting Diet

What do you think of when you put the words diet and budget into the same sentence.  Most people wouldn’t connect the two, but in fact they have some things in similar.  Budgets are the financial diet of our life and a diet is an attempt to control our food diet.  So when you are [...]

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Summer fun

Lately there has been a lot of great weather as the seasons are changing.  With the warm weather comes all of the great outdoor activities that you can do.  From going to parks and walking outside to extreme sports like white water rafting and sky diving.  There are tons of things to do.

Staying active and [...]

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Things you need to know before leaving home

When I first left home, I was headed to college for four years.  I really enjoyed my time living away from my parents at first.  Luckily I was able to eat on campus and didn’t really understand living on your own until I got out of the dorms and into a house that I started [...]

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