Shortly after my wife and I bid on a house a few days ago, we learned that although the sellers had gone with a higher offer, they wished for us to consider becoming the official “back-up” offer. By doing so, if the first deal fell through, we would be next in line – the home [...]
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This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance features Free Money Finance’s post The Cost of a New Home. As you know, my wife and I began looking for a home earlier this summer, hired a buyer’s agent, and have debated the merits of location vs. home quality.
Free Money Finance is also looking for a home. He [...]
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This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance features my Top 10 Most Annoying Ways to Lose A Little Money. Among the 70+ solid financial articles in the carnival is Fiscal Fizzle’s Getting the Best Car Insurance Rates.
Among Fiscal Fizzle’s top tips are:
Home Situation, noting that often homeowners are given better auto quotes because their homeownership indicates [...]
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So my wife and I are starting to shop for a home. We’ve never owned a home before. We almost did twice before, in two different states and in what seems like two different lifetimes ago. For a variety of reasons, it didn’t happen either time, but I’m pretty sure it will this time.
You: What [...]
Of all the articles in this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance, I most enjoyed Moneymonk’s Why American’s Don’t Save. Perhaps because it reminded me of a post I wrote long ago, Top 10 Excuses For Not Saving, but also because it was an excellent reminder of being realistic about the future.
Fact 1: It won’t be [...]
You: It’s not lighthouses.
Probably not.
You: Or millions of acres of corn fields.
Not likely.
You: What is it?
Very high average student loan balances.
You: How and why would you know this?
Late at night, after we get the kids down, one of the things I like to do to relax is study student loan patterns by county.
You: For real?
Heck [...]
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I’m always eager to share articles written elsewhere that are useful to Beyond Paycheck to Paycheck readers. That’s one reason I read the Carnival of Personal Finance every week. This week’s version, hosted by fellow New Englander David from Money Under 30, includes my post Should I Repair My Car or Buy Another One?
Of the [...]
Although my wife and I are going to celebrate our 10th anniversary in a few weeks, it was as though we were married only yesterday as I read The Weakonmist’s post How I Saved 15% On My Wedding Ring In 15 Seconds & 45% Overall, which I found while reviewing this week’s Carnival of Personal [...]
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My wife and I took a “staycation” this weekend. I’ll admit we didn’t plan it that way. We had a busy Saturday planned but aside from a brief visit by family Sunday, little else scheduled for the weekend.
But sometimes you really can enjoy the place you live.
The weather in New Hampshire was stunning all weekend [...]
One of the best parts of the weekly personal finance carnivals, including this week’s carnival hosted by WiseBread, it the wide variety of personal finance topics covered. In addition, I always take the time to enjoy an article or two that I’ve been meaning to write myself but just haven’t gotten to. This week was [...]
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