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5 Financial Lessons to Learn from Celebrity Deaths

Kevin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:24:11 +0000

Unless you’ve been living under a rock without access to radio, TV, the internet, Twitter, or Facebook for the last week you know that several celebrities have passed away from various causes. As a society we’ve lost TV pitchman Billy Mays (heart disease), entertainer Michael Jackson (who knows), actress Farrah Fawcett (cancer), entertainer Ed McMahon [...]

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Unproductive: PC Gaming

Kevin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:19:26 +0000

This is the third post in a series of enjoying life to the fullest. This weekâ€™s posts are covering things that I love to do despite it not making much financial sense. I’ve already told you about my financially unsound purchase of a 1978 BMW 320 and my love of dessert. Alright, here goes. I’ll [...]

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Unhealthy: I Love Dessert

Kevin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:03:02 +0000

This is the second post in a series of enjoying life to the fullest. This week’s posts are covering things that I love to do despite it not making much financial sense. Yesterday I told you about my financially unsound purchase of a 1978 BMW 320 that I plan to work on and restore over [...]

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Unfrugal: Owning and Restoring a Vintage BMW

Kevin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:34:45 +0000

I’ve got what many frugalists would call a weakness. I love cars. When you’re trying to get out of debt, save money, invest for retirement, etc. many people will tell you to cut everything. Cut eating out, cut cable, cut internet, cut cell phones… cut everything that isn’t of vital importance out of your life. [...]

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A Week’s Worth of Things I Love But Shouldn’t

Kevin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:11:08 +0000

This week is going to be a bit different on the blog. Normally I would be telling you how to create a CD ladder or how to pay off your credit card debt. But I need to mix it up a bit. Writing day in and day out on credit card debt can be… tedious [...]

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Walking a Fine Line: Living in Balance

Kevin — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:50:22 +0000

What is more important: living a balanced life or doing everything you can to strive for your goals? Of course it depends on your own personal definitions of a balanced life and striving for goals. Defining these will help you make an informed decision. Sacrificing to Succeed In the past I asked if you were [...]

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Susan Boyle is Living the Dream

Kevin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:47:49 +0000

Today we’re going to jump off the personal finance track. Money is important in this life we live. “Money makes the world go ’round.” Money buys things that improve your life, your comfort, or the comfort you provide others. But money is not everything. Not even close. You have to have some other reason to [...]

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Life is for Living

Kevin — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:48:06 +0000

As I mentioned on Saturday morning, we went to the Tennessee / Alabama game at Neyland Stadium this weekend. Bottom line: it was freaking awesome (even though we lost). Bottom line #2: we spent some money to do it. At first glance, you might think a personal finance blogger would say “Wow, what a stupid [...]

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