aging parents

At an early age, it is difficult to teach children about money. Learning comes much more easily when it is fun. Game nights are a family tradition in many households and throwing in one of these board games can combine fun with a little financial education. The board games provide the basic concept for what [...]

I often hear the notion that we are financially worse off than our parents. It seems that they were doing just fine on one income, while we struggle with our two. There are articles that explore this issue and compare things like mortgage, car, inflation, day care, etc. — but I think these articles didn’t [...]

A while back the Money Blog Network asked other bloggers to share what their finances were like 10 years ago. I’d forgotten about this group project until I read one at Can I Get Rich On A Salary who did an amazing job of improving his finances over $1 million in 10 years!

My Finances 10 [...]

Hello everyone and welcome to 155th edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance. Initially, I had a plan to make this a more unique and interesting carnival, but my sister and her family came up from Virginia for a surprised visit. As a result, I opted to spend more time with my family and less [...]

I finally took care of my parents’ whole life insurance policies and put them on a Premium Offset Proposal (POP) arrangement. Basically, this arrangement uses their policy’s current and accumulated dividend values to pay their premiums. Their death benefits and cash values will continue to grow, but at a slower pace. At the same time, [...]

I’ve been investing since 1996. In the process, I have learned a lot, mainly from trial and error. I’d like to share my experience with you. Here are some of the mistakes I’ve made:

Not investing soon enough — I have been working part-time since my first year at college in 1991. If I had known [...]

For parents who are saving for their child college education, they are mainly concerned about not saving enough. However, I don’t know if too many people think about the flip side.  For example, is it possible for some parents to save too much?

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I got some great discussion going in my [...]