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A personal finance blog with free tips on investing, real estate, saving money, budgeting, retirement, frugal living, and more.
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Benefits of a Recession
When most people hear of a recession, they tend to think of it as a negative. Not everything about it is negative though. In recessions, people tend to make the most of their money. For people who see a drop in their income due to the recession, ...
Bing Cashback
Before I purchase an item online, I’ll check to see if I can get cashback (or a rebate) on it through Bing (Microsoft’s new search engine). Typically I’ll receive 2%-5% cashback with most stores I buy from, but there are a few pl...
Best Retirement Advice
The best piece of retirement advice I have ever received was from my dad, “Save as much as you can as early as you can”. At the time I didn’t really understand the importance of those words since retirement would be around 40 y...
Free DVDs, Books, and CDs
My local library offers more than just books, they also offer DVD, CD rentals and many other amenities free of charge. While theoretically I pay for all this through taxes, it costs me nothing additional for items that I take out. While my local li...
How Not to Get Rich
The secret to not getting rich is to set your lifestyle around your income. To simplify things, we’ll take a look at the following hypothetical scenario from a high level and assume no investment spending occurs. Bob earns $100,000 in a given...
Rule of 72
If you want to get a quick estimate on how long it’ll take for you to double your investment the rule of 72 is for you. By simply taking your rate of return and dividing it into 72 you’ll figure out roughly how long it’ll take to ...

