10 Budgeting Tips for Newlyweds

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The beginning of marriage is a fun and exciting time, but it is also a time for adjustment and learning more about your spouse in many ways. Budgeting as a couple is much different from budgeting on your own and it will take time to adjust, but these ten budgeting tips can help newlywed couples [...]

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8 Effective Ways to Evade Financial Fiascos After Marriage

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Handling finances can be the greatest hurdle that married couples face. If you enter marriage along with a mammoth debt burden, both you and your spouse would be equally liable to mitigate this outstanding balance as well as the new debts incurred during and after marriage. Managing finances after marriage is quite a difficult and [...]

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Financial Infidelity in Marriage

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Raise your hand if you’ve ever been guilty of FINANCIAL INFIDELITY… do you see mine up? YEP. In some form or fashion, we’ve ALL done it. Here’s the deal.. Financial Infidelity shows up in BIG ways.. and in some small, subtle ways. See if any of these resonate with you. – A husband JUST finds [...]

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A Great Time to Set New Goals

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2012 is now here. It’s that time when everyone sets their New Year’s Resolutions and set’s forth to achieve them. Usually, a New Year’s Resolution centers around starting a new healthy habit or to discontinue a bad one. Quitting cigarettes or alcohol, losing weight, toning muscles, and curb impulse buying are among the top ones. [...]

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The “Debt” Problem – and a Strong Message

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I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately about the current financial situation our country faces.  The Debt Ceiling, our rising national debt, unemployment rates, and more all are very important issues right now.  As Americans today, we didn’t create these problems… they were made LONG ago by generations before us… and it seems they [...]

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The Joy of Saving for your Vacation.

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My wife and I have never been on a cruise. We know many people who have been on several cruises in their lifetime and they have enjoyed them very much. I think it would be great to take a vacation and enjoy each others company and escape reality for a while. The beaches, the ocean, [...]

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When you Blow the Budget…

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Perhaps one of the biggest examples of not budgeting correctly can be seen in Altamonte Springs, Fl. This building is called the “Majesty” building and it serves as a reminder to all that if you start a project… make sure you have the money to finish it. This building has been sitting unfinished for more [...]

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Budgeting the 80-10-10 way

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There’s a new fad diet out there called the 80-10-10 diet.  This refers to the amount of calories you intake and what percentages of each type of calories you need.  According to the 80-10-10 diet, you would want make sure that your calories come from 80% Carbohydrates, 10% protein, and 10% fat.  I’m not a [...]

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Did You Spend too Much for Christmas?

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My wife and mother-in-law recently went shopping for Black Friday. Having already preselected the deals they were going to get…they executed their shopping trip and bought just about everything they wanted. When they came back they had many great stories to tell. All of these stories had me shaking my head in dismay. There were [...]

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