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Hand Injury

Preventing Hand Injuries

One day last month my wife came home from work and told me about a customer she had that morning.  He was a young man, in his early 20s and needed a new battery for his car.  His hand was wrapped up and she could tell he had a serious hand injury. …

New Parent

Financial Guide For New Parents

Becoming a new parent is one of the scariest things you will ever go through, it’s also one of the most expensive.  Throughout the last decade of being a father I have come across several ideas for how to manage finances once children enter your world.  Last year I wrote …

End Of Year Update

2014 End of Year Update

This is the third quarterly installment of my financial updates. As I have stated in the past I am not comfortable revealing actual dollar amounts at this point of time, so all of the information presented here will be in the form of percentages. End of Year Update: Financials   Emergency …

Jump Start Your Children’s Wealth Building

Last year I wrote about helping teenage children fund their IRAs in order to boost their long term retirement savings.  The more years for compounding the better we are when it comes to retirement savings. There are of course different goals that young adults have when they enter the real …