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By: Back To Basics: Establish A Personal Finance Emergency Fund | My Super-Charged Life

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:55:44 +0000

[...] It may have never crossed your mind before. As logical as it is, many of us probably didn’t grow up in a home that had an emergency fund, so it just never occurred to us that we needed one. I know this was the case for me. My parents relied on credit cards as their emergency fund. Again, this is a fast way to run up debt which is not a good idea. [...]

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Financial Maturity | The Wisdom Journal — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:00:28 +0000

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What Could YOU Accomplish? | The Wisdom Journal — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:01:41 +0000

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Your children's REAL inheritance | The Wisdom Journal — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:01:44 +0000

[...] question to answer. My life’s story over the last 15 years has seen me make some colossal blunders, and I mean some biggies. I’ve messed up badly on so many fronts, but I’m committed to [...]

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Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:04:36 +0000

[...] My top five personal finance blunders – Ron of The Wisdom Journal spills the beans about his five top (bottom?) personal finance mistakes. The “I lived paycheck to paycheck spending every last dime I made” one sounds familiar to me. Via the Carnival of Personal Finance. [...]

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Growing Money » Blog Archive » Carnival of Personal Finance #157 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:09:11 +0000

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By: HIB

HIB — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:06:04 +0000

Unfortunately, my latest financial blunder was this past year. I guess it wasn’t a financial blunder per say, but it was certainly a big problem due to my lack of planning. We ended up owing over $3000 in taxes this year. My wife was a contracter for part of the year and we did not adequately plan for the tax consequences. On the positive side of things, I now tend to look for possible tax implications on all of our financial transcactions.