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Category Archives: Relationships & Money
Strategic Planning for the Everyday Family
Taking the Next Step with your Finances For several years now, my wife and I have been doing well with our finances. I haven’t used a credit card since 2006 or so, and my wife only has a Kohls card … Continue reading
Budgeting for Dummies: A Beginner’s Guide
Over the years, I’ve come across a lot of different approaches to budgeting. Naturally I feel that my approach is the best. That’s mainly because it works well for me. I finally realized that the method isn’t entirely critical as … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets & Spending Plans, Personal finance, Relationships & Money
Tagged budget, doing a budget, spending plan
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What I have learned by interviewing people who are Debt Free
For the past six months now I have had the pleasure of being able to interview debt free individuals and couples on the Debt Free Living Podcast. So far I have released about 20 episodes and it amazes me how … Continue reading
April Financial Literacy Month: April 10, 2012
Travis Pizel from Our Journey To Zero shares 4 ways to communicate about money in a relationship and how it is helping them pay off $100,000 in credit card debt (OUCH!): Continue reading
April Financial Literacy Month: April 5, 2012
For today’s video, Christine Douglas from MoneyScholar.net shares four main principles kids need to learn in order to be responsible money managers. Save: For the hot item of the moment (bike, game, doll) Invest: For something 10 years or more … Continue reading
Embrace the difficulties in your life
The time has come to make friends with the problems in your life. Ok. Maybe not real friends, but sorta kinda friends. The type of friends that you can wrap into a can’t-break-out-of-it kind of embrace until they share the … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, budgeting, Dave Ramsey, inspiration, Success
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Start talking, stop enabling, begin healing-Pt 2
Welcome back to Part Two of the saga of a family who was in an enabling relationship. Yesterday we met mom B., who had an adult daughter who wanted to move back home. Mom B. set reasonable conditions, yet the … Continue reading
Start talking, stop enabling, begin healing-Part 1
What happens when your child-who you thought had finally moved on to adulthood and in to their own place-has to move back home because of financial difficulties? Stay with me even if your children are not yet out of high … Continue reading
Apparently Nobody Likes a Quitter: My Debt Free Experience
How Quitting Debt Affected my Relationships Nobody likes a quitter. Winners never quit and quitters never win. I heard these expressions a lot growing up and I certainly agree with them for the most part. But I didn’t realize how … Continue reading
Your Kids Learn by Watching: What are they Learning?
In case you missed it, I wrote a guest post over at Mom’s Plans about how our children learn by watching. How we behave with money is how they will grow up behaving with money. Make sure you head over … Continue reading