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Good morning Dinks. I am not sure if it’s just my group of friends or it’s my entire generation but it seems like less and less people are getting married.  Nowadays it is considered traditional to live at home with your parents until you get married. Young couples are moving in together and starting a life together without the ring on their finger and I am wondering if that is smart or stupid?
Yesterday in the grocery store I saw a young couple at a checkout arguing about the price of their groceries and I instantly knew that they were a newly cohabited couple…

Your gold fund investments are down about 20 percent year-to-date.
Goldman expects another 20 percent decline through 2014. They’ve been right so far on their gold call, but wrong on other things (watch the video below).
The pros (hedge funds, I guess) have been cutting back their gold exposures since September 2011…

A major part of getting in control of your money is learning to save it. In order to save money, though, you first have to cut back on your expenses. The following tips from Power Finance El Paso can help you save nearly $500 a month   Pay off your highest interest credit card debt … Continue Reading »

Chipotle: Well known masters of efficiency
It’s become common knowledge to JM readers that the secret to becoming rich is — in essence — spending less than you make. We also know that the money we are able to save has the magical ability to accumulate interest and will continue compounding through our target retirement date…

I can’t believe I made it six months.  That’s a pretty good accomplishment and I thought I’d share some of my observations about being a blogger.

The Evolving Mindset of a this Blogger
When I started this blog at the end of December 2012, I was obsessively writing articles and trying to build up a content base…

Deleting Blog Comments is for Pussies
Club Thrifty – Stop spending. Start living.To those of you who come to my site to read amazing money tips and hilarious personal stories, I apologize.  Today’s post does not contain anything like that.  In fact, it only contains my general opinion about my personal PET PEEVE OF THE UNIVERSE: deleting blog comments…

Debt is one of the nastier four letter words in some circles. In fact, it is so gross that many people want to destroy their debt as fast as possible. They take it as serious, or more serious, than their jobs. I can definitely understand why people would want to destroy their debts, especially the high interest rate debts so I thought I’d let you in on the secrets of how to destroy debt like it’s your job…

Ramping up this summer!
Every summer I begin the season with an acute case of “Mommy guilt.”  I have two children, an eight year old daughter and a four year old son.  When summer hits for these two there is not real change to their Monday through Friday routine.
I take my daughter to a summer camp that is run out of the same daycare my son attends…

I’ve discussed more than a few money advisors to those with financial difficulties in my time on this blog, usually through reviews of their books on posts just like this.  There are numerous approaches that such advisors can take, from soothing and sympathetic with your problems to being forceful and challenging you about how you got into such problems in the first place and what you MUST do to fix them…

 
This has been a main question between my wife and I recently.  Being that we’re almost completely debt free (Yay!), we have more money than we’ve had in the past.  Over the last few years, we’ve tried to live on as little as possible (within reason) and have been putting everything extra towards our student loans…

How many times in a year do you get offers in your mailbox (or e-mail) asking you to sign up with a new bank? To be honest I’ve received these offers for years and they’ve always gone directly into my “circular file” (These days I’m more environmentally conscious, so they actually go into my recycling bin)…

When my wife and I moved into our current house we didn’t have a lot of the common household items you need to live day to day. Seeing as we had just committed to paying our mortgage and had just gotten married, we didn’t have much money to go throwing around on random household appliances. Nevertheless we still needed them, and so we ended up buying a number of things on the cheap to get us going without having to spend a fortune…

The following is a guest post from Matt at Mom and Dad Money. If you’re interested in submitting a guest post, please consult the guest posting guidelines and contact me.
 
The world of investing can feel pretty scary sometimes. We’re reminded daily of the market ups and downs. If you flip on the TV, one talking head is screaming at you to sell while another is saying you’d be crazy not to buy…

**Special Note – Google Reader is shutting down on July 1st, so if you want to continue reading Debt Roundup’s content, you will need to switch to another RSS reader. I recommend Feedly, Netvibes, and The Old Reader.Alright everyone, I have a quick one for you today.  As most of you know, I love infographics…

It’s come to mind lately that there may be things I do to save money that might fall into a gray area. Now, I am in no way talking about stealing or anything remotely illegal, but if you are someone who makes it a point to follow all the rules, you might be disappointed with some of my habits. Maybe you do some of them as well…

When I think of a top travel rewards card, the likes of Capital One, Chase, and American Express come to mind. In fact, I carry cards from all three of those card issuers. But a fairly new entrant on the scene is offering some pretty sweet bonus rewards. The Barclaycard Arrival World MasterCard is an excellent option for big spenders looking for big travel rewards…

I have arrived in Vermont for a 7 week stint at the summer camp I run with my wife.  This is always an extremely exciting time for me for a lot of reasons; many of which I will write about over the next couple of months.
The crux of the matter is that my family (and the students at camp) live a life of simplicity and minimalism together for an extended period of time…