Joe is a little boy who just turned one year old. Just one year ago, I was sitting in a hospital holding him for the first time. As I’ve already mentioned on here, I was in some very serious debt at the time, and when I looked down at him, I realized that for the [...]

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I was recently working on a self-evaluation exercise in which I was asked to consider memories from my childhood that had to do with money. These memories would then be used as a reflection on which to see my own personal finance biases today – and thus the connection would enable me to strengthen my [...]

Continue Reading Remembering A Painful Childhood Experience – And Trying To Apply What It Means

Recently, I’ve had several opportunities to seriously consider how money impacts the relationships within my family, and it’s made me develop a number of “rules” with which I interact with my family on a financial basis.
The first situation occurred several months ago, when one of my siblings was suddenly unable to take care of his [...]

Continue Reading Rules For Handling Financial Issues With Extended Family

That’s right, readers, I’m an idiot. There’s really not much more to say other than that. I am capable of coming up with some useful ideas and combining them into sensible plans, but in terms of putting them all together… well, the best I can say is that sometimes you have to learn from your [...]

Continue Reading Sometimes I’m an Idiot

Over several years as a regular but non-professional eBay seller and buyer, I’ve been accumulating a set of “best practices” for online auctioneering as a seller. eBay has regularly published such lists, but these lists are often skewed towards choosing “best” practices for maximizing your profits only when they overlap with eBay’s utility and profits. [...]

Continue Reading Defining eBay “Best Practices” For Dollar-Conscious Non-Professional Sellers

This week, we are conducting a detailed review of the often-lauded personal finance book The Millionaire Next Door. First published in 1996, the book has held a consistently high level of popularity for more than a decade. What valuable insights does this book contain? Let’s find out.
Yesterday, we learned that the typical millionaire approaches life [...]

Continue Reading The Millionaire Next Door: Buy or Don’t Buy?

This week, we are conducting a detailed review of the often-lauded personal finance book The Millionaire Next Door. First published in 1996, the book has held a consistently high level of popularity for more than a decade. What valuable insights does this book contain? By the end of the week, perhaps we’ll discover its secrets.
Yesterday, [...]

Continue Reading The Millionaire Next Door: On Living

This week, we are conducting a detailed review of the often-lauded personal finance book The Millionaire Next Door. First published in 1996, the book has held a consistently high level of popularity for more than a decade. What valuable insights does this book contain? By the end of the week, perhaps we’ll discover its secrets.
Yesterday, [...]

Continue Reading The Millionaire Next Door: On Learning

This week, we are conducting a detailed review of the often-lauded personal finance book The Millionaire Next Door. First published in 1996, the book has held a consistently high level of popularity for more than a decade. What valuable insights does this book contain? By the end of the week, perhaps we’ll discover its secrets.
Yesterday, [...]

Continue Reading The Millionaire Next Door: On Spending

Here are a few of my favorite links from the past week. Also, I was fortunate enough to be included in two blog carnivals. The Carnival of Personal Finance #214, hosted by Poorer Than You and the Carnival of Money Stories #11, hosted by Bible Money Matters. Many thanks to the carnival hosts for taking [...]

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