Posts Tagged ‘savings’

My wife pregnancy is coming along well, except for occasional all-over-the-body-ache. While I was giving her a massage last night, I was able to go over another financial lesson with her. The second lesson was focused mainly on financial goals.

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Types of Financial Goals
There are many types of financial goals:

Pay off [...]

I shared some great posts with you in my weekly roundup about college savings. However, these posts and what I have written tend to focus on the dollar amount and savings vehicles. As part of the roundup post, Chief Family Officer commented that $250,000 may not be enough for a good private school:
“…I [...]

I wrote about saving money for college in my posts: “My kid’s college costs will be $467,000! Are you kidding me?” and later in “Saving $250,000 for my son’s college education” with dollar amount adjusted down to a more realistic level. This weekly roundup, I searched my Google Reader and beyond for other posts and [...]

In “My kid’s college costs will be $467,000! Are you kidding me?,” I may have gone too far toward the worst case scenario. After additional research at Savingforcollege.com, a more realistic number should be around $250,000 for 2024. Although I have not decided on the exact investment vehicle, I am leaning toward the [...]

This will be a short post. What I wanted to do is to outline all the financial matters I need to take care of for the baby due this December. As I do more research, I hope to write additional posts and link to them from here. Hopefully, I will have a [...]

This is a guest post from Paidtwice of I’ve Paid For This Twice Already…

1. Make a list and stick to it - planning is important
You can make the list based on what you need plus what is on sale by looking at the circulars for where you are going. Menu planning for your week [...]

This week roundup will focus on the subject of retirement. Something I look forward to hopefully sooner rather than later. The way I see it is that you can truly retire until you achieve financial independence; and that is what I want.
Financial Dominance wrote What Do I Need to Retire? and share with [...]

I am not a smoker, but a couple of my friends are. Some of them occasionally complain about money problem to me, so I was wondering what their smoking habit is costing them. I am not going to ask any of them to stop, but I hope this post will help them move [...]

In preparation for my first child, I started to think about saving for college. I found this neat calculator from SallieMae and tried it just to get an idea of how much will college costs 17 years from now (2024). Based on the site, the current average annual tuitions are:

$2,191 for two-year public colleges
$5,491 for [...]