Not to the site, but to me! I turned the ripe young age of 26 today. Instead of taking the day off to relax and rest, I’m working as usual. After work I’ll head out to a nice little Mexican restaurant with my wife and son to celebrate. Nothing too fancy, just a nice time [...]
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While in some cases that may literally be true, I mean it metaphorically. A married person - man or woman, has no money. That is, if they want to have a successful, happy marriage. All newlyweds take heed - when you marry, it is no longer “Mine” or “hers” or “his”. [...]
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Every once in awhile, a word or phrase comes along that everyone loves. They love it so much that they use it in everyday life, and in normal conversations. They use it so much, in fact, that they absolutely kill it. “Snowflake” is one of those such terms. Everyone, it seems, is playing with [...]
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When it comes to financial matters, we like to put things off. I do it. You do it. Most people do - no reason to deny it. It’s just so much easier to say that we’ll do it tomorrow.
The problem, of course, is that tomorrow never comes. The late General George Patton said it best, [...]
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Every day, it seems, a friend or coworker mentions to me that they’re going to be blowing a large sum of money on something frivolous. Wether it’s a new truck or SUV, big-screen TV, $2000 dog, or some other expense, I shudder internally. When it comes to the truck or SUV, I do take some [...]
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After reading a post by Mrs Micah, I realized that I too have a sleep debt. I work about 55 hours per week at my day job, and roughly 16 on my small business. That’s a total of 71 hours of work per week - which is quite a lot. It is down from my [...]
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If you’re like the average person, you work hard to earn a paycheck, and probably spend more of it than you should. You do try to put some away with the goal of someday becoming wealthy. What does wealth mean, exactly?
There are a few different interpretations of wealth. Many think that being [...]
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Every smart llama needs a financial plan. To put that plan into place, you need to have some core principals relating to money - principals that you stick to no matter what. Or, at least do your best to stick to. Sometimes real life emergencies and situations come up to throw our plans off. But [...]
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Recession. Mortgage crisis. Subprime meltdown. Credit crunch. Falling dollar. Stock market crash. Inflation.
If you’ve turned on the TV or opened a newspaper this year, then you’ve been bombarded with these terms. The media is all over these terms, and they’re playing it up as they are prone to do. Granted, we do have some serious [...]
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I’ve been writing Llama Money for three full months now - since November 1, 2007. In that time I think I’ve written up some pretty good posts. I’ve certainly laid everything on the line with regards to my financial picture - my net worth updates each month are quite detailed.
My readers, however, seem to [...]
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