Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
When my wife and I got married, we talked about having kids and what we would do. I would always say, “I think you should go back to work after we have a child” and she would always say, “Maybe I should be a stay at home mom”. We would talk about it every now and then but we pretty much kept the same points
I have to admit I wasn’t as impressed with the latest “Millionaire in the Making” series on CNNMoney. I do think I need to cut these folks some slack because they are doing better than a lot of people. I think that changing careers in their 40’s and not coming to the realization that saving/investing was so critical when they were young probably plays in to
If you haven’t noticed, over the last few months I’ve pretty much kept clam about my financial state. I took down all of my financial details because a few of my friends found my blog. Me, being the rocket scientist that I am, didn’t do a very good job of creating an anonymous name. Had I made up a completely new name for myself when
Okay, maybe it isn’t high stakes drama, but it is a big deal to me. I get a bonus based on the value of my companies stock in late June. Our stock has been fluctuating a lot lately and my bonus is rising and falling every day. I can’t wait until it’s over. And a sign that my mind is thinking about the market too
Well, I have to admit I’ve found myself second guessing my strategy of buy and hold. Of course I’m not making any rash decisions and certainly won’t be selling as the market goes down, but I have thought about a couple things. 1) Maybe I should have moved a percentage of my portfolio to cash as part of an ongoing diversification strategy 2) I definitely
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=2070979 Yeah. I guess I don’t agree with Bernanke
I’ve often thought about this question. Here’s a nice answer. It was nice to see that Schwab does offer a guarantee, but who knows if they’d really cover my loss due to my account being hacked. http://www.kiplinger.com/personalfinance/columns I think that their non-technical business processes are key to protecting you against someone taking your money. By sending notification to your registered address for any address changes
When reading articles like this: http://www.kirotv.com/education/9297347/detail.html it reminds me that I haven’t started a 529 plan for my daughter. I spent about a half hour trying to figure out which plan is best and also requested information on the Washington state GET program, but I’m starting to get serious about opening a Kansas based 529 plan. It has a decent rating from the people that
I suppose it was inevitable. My daughter has reached that precious milestone of wanting everything she sees in the store and she believes with the right approach, she’ll get it. I guess it’s been slowly evolving, but I really noticed it last time we went to the store. She’s almost 3 years old and firmly has a grasp on the idea that getting more “things” is
Well, as some of you may have noticed, I took down the details of our net worth. I did this for a couple reasons. I decided that I didn’t want to put that level of detail out any more and not long after making that decision, a few of my friends discovered this blog. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not ashamed of where our net