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When Calculating Life Insurance You Aren't Just Replacing One Income - You are Replacing Two!

Purchasing life insurance is a bigger discussion than just replacing one income…sometimes you have to replace two!

Over the years I have watched a lot of my favorite personal finance bloggers talk about calculating life insurance need, and I never understood why their calculations only take into account replacing one income.  Two recent posts on the

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November 18th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Life Insurance | 11 comments

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How Much Interest do I pay to Financing Companies and Banks? TOO MUCH!

This post was inspired by a post written by Patrick at Cash Money Life titled, “Do you Know How Much Interest You are Paying Each Month” and Matt Jabs at Debt Free Adventure titled, “How Much Interest am I Paying? Hint, its Less.” Interestingly Patrick uses just examples, and Matt uses his real numbers.

When I

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November 4th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Debt | 9 comments

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What Does it Take to Get to a Million Dollars?

I had a very depressing/interesting discussion with the father in law this weekend.  I am a huge fan of my father in law, he is/was a great father, a successful business man and an overall great dude.

Despite being, what I always considered staunch republican, we got into a great discussion about universal health care, the

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September 14th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Personal Finance | Leave a comment

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