Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
Parade has a great article about a family that moved in to their dream home but ultimately sold it, bought a house that was much smaller and half the price, and then donated the difference to charity. One thing that I found interesting about their story is that doing this didn’t hurt their family, rather it actually helped them become closer. It doesn’t sound like
Nickel over at FiveCentNickel has accomplished what I would really like to do. He has paid off his mortgage in about 7.5 years. You can feel the excitement and satisfaction in his writing as he explains how he did it. I’m impressed. We are also paying additional towards our mortgage since it’s really the only debt we have. My goal isn’t quite as aggressive as
Just a quick note to highlight that we’ve hit the 5 year anniversary of blogging at Everybody Loves Your Money. It has been a long ride and I hope to be blogging in another 5 years. I appreciate all the support from readers in the form of site visits, comments and feedback about the blog. If you have stories that you would like to share
Free Money Finance is having a March Madness event that is highlighting the best of the best personal finance blog posts. He’s pitting two great articles against each other in a series of games. It’s a great way to check out some quality personal finance articles and broaden your reading list of good PF Bloggers. Go check it out!
If you do any blogging on the Internet, I’m interested to know what blogging platform you use. I’m really interested to hear what type of desktop blogging software you are using in conjunction with WordPress. I’ve been having trouble with Windows Live Writer with WordPress. It only seems to work for a little while after I upgrade to the latest WordPress version. After awhile, it
We spent the weekend out at our lake house in the Hood Canal area of Washington state. We had a nice, low key time there and mostly just enjoyed spending time with family. We’ve been trying to keep the costs of going out there low by not heading to the grocery store on every trip out and instead just pulling what we have in the
With all of the attention on Haiti the last few days and the powerful destructive capabilities of an earthquake, it’s probably worth asking the question whether you should buy earthquake insurance. For years I questioned whether we should have the insurance and I felt as if I was living on the edge a bit. For those of you that haven’t spent much time reading through
Nickel over at Five Cent Nickel put up a post today about choosing a mortgage lender. A reader contacted him with the following question: “If bank A offers me a certain APR with roughly $3,000 in closing costs, while bank B offers me a lower APR with roughly $3,000 in closing costs, but bank B is a no name bank, which do I pick? In
As I was sitting back looking at my financial goals for 2010, I couldn’t help but focus on being ready for the unknown. Both my wife and I are very well employed and aren’t feeling as if there is an imminent danger of losing our incomes but with all the gloom and doom around, it’s easy to find ourselves focusing on “what if”. Rather than
It’s a new year so that means it’s time to set a few goals for our finances this year. We are still fortunate to both be employed so our budget has been comfortable so far. As I read the multitude of articles about people suffering through financial hardships, I feel bad for each and every one of them. Each article reminds me to do all