Blazing a Trail Towards Financial Independence
Financial responsibility is a trait that can be taught from an early age. Setting positive examples is critical to help your children begin to develop a mindset of financial responsibility that can set them up for life.
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It’s official: Summer is over. School is in full swing and college football is back! Whoohoo! We paid off our car loan in August, but did we get our savings back in line in September?
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Between the start of school and two vacations, August was a whirlwind month. The moving and shaking also carried over into our finances. So what happened?
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Just like that July is out the window and August has rolled in. Our oldest is headed to school next week and I could have sworn she just got out of school. Time truly flies. While the month was sprinting on by, how did our finances fare?
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Happy Fourth of July!
June just wrapped up, and with it goes a very expensive month for us. It seemed like everywhere we turned some expense would pop up. Well, as the saying goes: “Them’s the breaks”.
With the onslaught of expenses, how did our finances fare?
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Fresh off our beach vacation, I am back at it and wanted to provide an update on our finances. Over the past several weeks, heavy rains have conspired to produce near historic river flooding on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers near us. (Even though the river is only a few blocks away we are, thankfully, high and dry). In fact it’s pouring rain as I type this. Yikes!
It seems like every other year we have been dealing with near record floods. I know flooding levels are statistically based, but it’s incredible that we’ve had multiple “once in a lifetime” events in only a few years. Anyways, back on topic… did our net worth rise as much as the river in May?
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