Guess I’ll mention I used to post on the Women In Red message board started by MP Dunleavy. Thought it was a great place for advice and bouncing ideas off of people financial and non-financial. Not anymore.  I’ve stopped posting and decided it wasn’t worth the headache.  Sadly, I’ll miss the pregnancy thread, but it’s [...]

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MP Dunleavy wrote recently about curbing your sneaky spending.

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Again MP Dunleavy writes and interesting article about “How rich friends make you feel poor.”  She is honest as she writes how a recent experience with a friend who makes more money than her, pressured her into spending more than she should have. Been there, done that.  I find it hard to believe that no [...]

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MP Dunleavy wrote an article about “Is your retirement plan off-Target“.  She writes about her own experience using a target retirement fund with Fidelity.  Because she was clueless about investing, she decided to put it on auto-pilot, contribute and not worry about it. She calls it inertia. She said it’s the reason about 50% of [...]

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Last month MP Dunleavy wrote an interesting article called “How $10 could save your retirement.”  Every dollar you save now will be worth $16 in 36 years, the approximate time you may be retiring.  So every dollar spent could be worth a lot!  According to the investment rule of 72 and assuming a high 8% [...]

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MP Dunleavy actually broke it down last month items that women pay more than men do in general.  I’d have to say I fully agree.  And not just agree, but there are a ton of other items not mentioned. Definitely health insurance women cost more.  Why?  Childbearing age women are for sure going to use [...]

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MP Dunleavy wrote an interesting article about spenders and savers marrying each other.  She followed it up by talking about what happens when your mate can’t manage money.  Basically she said that opposites are attracted to each other, but people typically say they want to be with or marry someone with similar financial values.  Yet [...]

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MP Dunleavy writes an interesting article about being the Family Bailout Fund.  It looks at what people think and do when their families start to hit them up for money.  Does your family treat you like an ATM? Interesting question.  I am pretty grateful that my family does not.  Actually if anything people treat my [...]

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MP Dunleavy wrote an interesting article about women not taking finances seriously.  They compared women to men, and while found women to be sadly lacking in the savings, credit card debt, and investing departments.  Now realize, the men in the survey aren’t great either.  MP says that women aren’t taking their financial future as seriously [...]

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Yesterday I talked about MP Dunleavy chatting about her increase in cost of living. On Friday at LAL Musings I ranted about hating my neighbors. Today I’m pondering about the sacrifices of living in an expensive area. I guess this mostly came up because I hate my neighbors. Don’t get me wrong. This happened because [...]

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