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Life Insurance Stay at Home Mom

How Much Life Insurance For A Stay At Home Mom?

Imagine Replacing the tasks a stay at home mom does, even if the only expense were daycare, this can EASILY run to $2,000 a month for 2 kids. When we think of life insurance most of the time we are looking at income replacement for someone whose income is used …

How To Organize Your Finances

I’m a very detail oriented person.  I love numbers, spreadsheets and of course money. For my entire adult life I have organized my money using spreadsheets. When I got my first job in 2004 I started a spreadsheet to keep track of my income.  In 2005 I started a net …

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Buying A House With A Friend

Last month Mrs. C. told me that her brother mentioned the idea of buying a home with a friend.  Although she strongly advised him against this, I think he may still end up trying to go this route. The house in question is a $6,500 major fixer upper in a rough area. …

Lost Fortunes Part 2

Last month I wrote about people who lost fortunes in history.  While I was brainstorming that article I left a few out that certainly deserve mention: Dong Nguyen: Dong Nguyen invented the App Flappy Birds in 2012 and had limited expectations, after all, millions of simple game apps are made …