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Six year-end financial tasks

Monday, November 29th, 2010

It's the holiday shopping season. Already. Again.  Where does the time go?  (Minute by minute, I'm told.) Two thousand eleven will be upon us in only a month.  Here are a few tasks that are worth doing to tie a financial bow on 2010: Review your health and dental care ...

Meal planning for plugging budgetary holes

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Chief Family Officer and I go waaaay back: we both started blogging in 2005.  She, being the consummate CFO, has been far more regular with monitoring her routines than I have.  (By contrast, if you were to count the number of times I start something up on here, and then ...

Back to Basics: Food, clothing, shelter

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

We may think that we need a lot of things.  We may think we need cable TV, our morning coffee and bagel, a couple of pints at the pub each Friday, or a really big house with a mortgage that the lender had to "make work for our income." These ...

Back to Basics: Reduce your debt

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

Being in debt simply means that at one point you borrowed money to fund some purchase, and are now paying it back over time.  (For the purpose of this post, I'm not going to lump in "profitable" or "good" debt that is used to make money reliably for the borrower ...