Why Invest for Your Child! I recently heard an argument that investing for a young child is a horrible thing to do!  At one time in history, this may have made a lot of sense, but that was before the internet and those are what I consider old thoughts.  Still earning your own way and […]
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Last month we visited Hawaii for a week with our extended family and we had a great time. I was hoping RB40 Jr. would enjoy the trip and it went off without a hitch. We used to travel much more, but when we had a kid, we decided to put off traveling until he can enjoy it too. He’s 3 now and it’s so much easier to travel long distance with him. On the other ha
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Becoming Debt Free After first becoming totally debt free,  I felt a huge weight lifted from my shoulders and I thought the journey to wealth accumulation was a downhill journey… but I wasn’t even close to reality! I figured I’d be able to redirect all the money I use to spend on debt reduction, into […]
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One of these days, I’d like to put together an early retirement guide, but I just don’t have time to write the whole thing at once. I’ll have to write it a piece at a time and then put it together later. Our kid just takes up so much time. I don’t know how my mom did it with 3 boys. Let’s take a step back and start at the beginning. The first step to re
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  Customer Service Matters When Selling Products Online   Your e-commerce website is your business. It’s your place, your store, and the home base for your customers. Therefore, it makes a lot of sense that you put an enormous amount of time and energy into making it the best that you possibly can. Your plugins […]
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I got home from my 6 day 5 night trip to Disney World in Orlando a few hours ago.  I was there with The Wife, The Boy and both grandmothers (they had a separate but adjoining room), and we met another couple and their two kids down there.  Our itinerary was pretty packed and very
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Last week, I was listening to the Brand Over Brain episode on the TED radio podcast and I was blown away. The episode was about branding and how it affects our enjoyment of consumer products. I usually buy generic or store brand products and I thought they are just as good as their brand name counterparts. Apparently, that’s not really true. I guess I was just
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Today, I’m sitting in a library realizing that I in a kind of personal finance funk lately and that I made a lot of personal finance mistakes these past years, but now I’m down the road so far that it’s hard to imagine going back and rethinking my choices.  Things have been set into motion […]
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