Posts Tagged ‘Spending Habits’

Are Your Friends Enabling Poor Spending Habits?

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Have you ever gone out with a bunch of friends, had a great time but found your bank account much lighter when you got home? Or you went to store with a friend just to pick something up, but a few more items ended up in your bag? Whether or not you want to admit, sometimes friends can help enable poor spending habits. You might want to take a hard look at your friends and avoid hanging out with these personality types: Bargain Hunter On first glance, you might think this friend is great to go shopping with. He knows… Read the whole article...

1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by Robert Wilkinson - May 7, 2010 at 4:20 am

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How Getting Your Finances in Order is Like Getting in Shape

January!  Time to once again set lofty goals. While glancing through a fitness book (Fit and Well: Core Concepts and Labs in Physical Fitness and Wellness) I noticed a subtitle — Reaching Wellness through lifestyle management.  The section “introduces the general process of behavior change and highlights the decisions and challenges you’ll face at each stage.” In my aha moment, I realized that there are so many parallels between getting in shape and getting your finances in order. The left column is what the book suggests for getting serious about your health.  The right is the parallel behavior for getting… Read the whole article...

1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by Robert Wilkinson - January 18, 2010 at 8:20 pm

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Review: Stop Acting Rich

Every other Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book. Over the years, I’ve professed a ton of admiration for Thomas Stanley and William Danko’s excellent personal finance book The Millionaire Next Door. It was the first book I reviewed on The Simple Dollar and it’s still one I turn to regularly for ideas and inspiration. One of the most interesting themes in The Millionaire Next Door is the idea that you really can’t judge a book by its cover when it comes to personal wealth. In fact, quite often, public displays of affluence disguise a debt-ridden underaccumulator of… Read the whole article...

1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by Robert Wilkinson - November 8, 2009 at 6:20 pm

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Getting Motivated to Organize Your Finances

For manitial sttowageg yoces bth manare the est. Regardless of regardless of whether you did not make investments sufficient time learning about fundamental personal finance guidelines when you had been much more youthful, or life occurred and you are now at the bottom of a extremely big issue, it can be difficult to get motivated to make that alter and get your finances beneath deal with. Waiting will only make issues spiral out of deal with faster, so it is essential to find that dedication to take that initial action in controlling your finances. Correct here are some fantastic… Read the whole article...

1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by Robert Wilkinson - September 29, 2009 at 11:20 am

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Is Consolidation Always the Answer?

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1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by Robert Wilkinson - August 24, 2009 at 10:20 am

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The Money Diaries: The 20-something semi-conscious spender

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1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by Robert Wilkinson - August 18, 2009 at 5:27 pm

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