Welcome to the time machine! This was originally posted on December 16, 2009. Impulse shopping kills. Not literally, of course, but it stings. You need to stop. I need to stop. We all need to stop. Here’s how: 1. Use a list. Everybody tells you to shop with a list. Nobody has problems shopping with…
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I wrote this post was as a guest post a year ago, to answer the question, “What is the best financial advice or tool you have found or been given?” Once upon a time, there was a young man–an arrogant man barely out of childhood–who thought he new more than anyone he had ever known,…
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This is a conversation between me and my future self, if my financial path wouldn’t have positively forked 2 years ago. The transcript is available here. What would your future self have to say to you?
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ta·boo -adjective 1. proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable: taboo words. There is a societal prohibition against talking about money, especially actual money. Talking about a deal, or the hypothetical bundle you lost on the Super Bowl is ok, but discussing how much money you make, or how much you have saved for retirement is almost as bad as talking about…
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