In this day and age, people are always talking about how bad the economy is and how it is making things difficult for them. I’m not here to say that it isn’t, but to work towards the future. The past has already happened and I can’t change any of that, but what I can do [...]
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People are always talking about their finances and money. There are hundreds and thousands of websites out there to talk about money and finances. The biggest problem that I always end up hearing about is somebody not really knowing where to go or start. Most people have a basic understanding of, “I make money and [...]
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The title says it all. This is something that I have heard many different people say over the years. Normally I have heard it said the most when I am involved in some hard manual labor. I like to think that you can apply this to many more things than just hard labor. In fact [...]
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Well, after living for a year without any cable TV. We finally broke down and got cable again. It was kind of a convenience thing since we were moving and setting up new utilities. Thought that we would give it a try. Now that we have gotten rid of all of our credit card debt.
The [...]
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I hope that everyone had a great July 4th. It is an important part of our history that needs to be remembered. With all that said, let’s jump into running the race again. Today we’ll be going over some more Biblical principles and today is from Proverbs 20. All quotes are in the English Standard [...]
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My favorite part of almost every project is in planning. I like to spend most of my time looking at my options, coming up with a great solution, and then putting it to work. Planning is an extremely important part of your financial picture. You also need to go back through your finances periodically and [...]
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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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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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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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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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