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Do You Need to Force Yourself to be Cash Poor to Stay on Track?

Like most things in life, I truly believe that the basics of personal finance is a combination of mental toughness and knowing yourself.  I know I need barriers between me and cash; this is the very reason I can’t carry cash on me.  Talk about a weird feeling when I have debit card $3.33 from McDonalds

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2 Years of Blogging! Something More Important than Finances

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When I was deciding how to memorialize my second year of blogging I thought of two things.  A blog give away or a really detailed financial update as to what has changed in my life since I wrote my first post on August 5th, 2008.  But then it hit me, it would be a

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Repost of my First Post – Almost Two Year Anniversary at My Journey to Millions

August 5th, 2010 will be 2 years for My Journey to Millions!  To put that in perspective:

High School was 4 years College was 4 Years Law School was 3 years I have been Married 2 years and 2 months

For the next couple days I am going to re-post some REALLY old posts. 

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Is Evan a Personal Finance D-Bag Part 2?

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Last time I asked the question of whether I was a personal finance D-Bag I went to The Met and paid the full “suggested” price to get in.  I couldn’t decide if I was a good humanitarian or a personal finance blogger d-bag.  I got some great responses,

If you can afford to

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What does your Tax Return Say About You and Your Financial Health?

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I just recently discovered the new York Times Series titled, Financial Tuneup whereby author Ron Lieber attempts

To tackle the never-ending, ever-multiplying list of undone money tasks in your life, he came up with the idea of taking a fiscal health day — a single day to tuneup your personal finances, during business hours.

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Are you Affected by Paralysis by Analysis? How I try to Overcome My Issues

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Paralysis by Analysis or Analysis Paralysis can be defined as

over-analyzing (or over-thinking) a situation, so that a decision or action is never taken, in effect paralyzing the outcome. A decision can be treated as over-complicated, with too many detailed options, so that a choice is never made, rather than try something and

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How Much Liquidity Do You Want?

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I am currently in operation horde cash, for two reasons, we want to eventually move (within a year to 18 months) and cash is king when negotiating, and two we are expecting our first child at the end of the year.

I am no where near where I want to be, but as

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Happy 30th Birthday to The Wife

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In honor of The Wife’s 30th Birthday I thought I’d go through the archives and find some of my favorite posts about her, from her, or that having something she did that made me nutty.

My favorite post is from 2 long years ago when I declared that My Wife was My Greatest

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Advantages of Using a Prepaid Credit Card

There are many benefits to using a prepaid credit card.  A prepaid credit, also known as a secured credit card  is defined by bank rate as a credit card that, “…requires a cash collateral deposit that becomes the credit line for that account.”

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