The question asked is $1 Million dollars enough to retire? On Yahoo Finance, the article questions whether it is or not. The article thinks that $1 million dollars is not enough to retire on today, but in previous generations it was. The idea is withdrawing 4%, will give you a 90% chance of having enough [...]
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$1 Million retirement?
June 12th, 2008 · 26 Comments
Tags: Estate Planning · Investing · Net Worth · Retirement
Should you pay off your student loans?
April 1st, 2008 · 13 Comments
I think when it comes to finances, DH and I are pretty conservative people. However, we were discussing today about student loans. DH has some and I mentioned thinking about not paying it off quickly. We did agree to try and pay of DH’s school loans before interest start accruing.
But recently I’ve been contemplating not [...]
Tags: Debt · Estate Planning
Funeral costs
January 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Who pays for funeral costs? In hawaii they have this thing where you give money “koden” when a person dies to help the family defray the funeral costs. Imagine according to the National Funeral Directors Association the average cost of a funeral as of July 2004 was $6500. I believe it. [...]
Tags: Estate Planning
Tax help or not?
January 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments
Okay, I signed up yet again to see a tax guy for help this year. Last year we moved and I felt frustrated reading over the new state tax laws. So we ended up paying someone to file for us. It was $575 last year but he did do our federal and two states. I’m [...]
Tags: Estate Planning · Personal Finance · taxes
Do I need a will?
January 18th, 2007 · 3 Comments
This week obviously I haven’t been thinking much about finances or being frugal. I haven’t spent money on anything except trying to go home, board the dogs, but I’ve been contemplating life and my relationship with money a lot.
The question now raised is do DH and I need a will? We’re DINKS who [...]
Tags: Estate Planning
