Budget

How I Avoid Arguing With My Spouse About Money

I am sitting down to do our budget for March. To be honest, we’ve been “coasting along” for the past two months, making a few “I want that” purchases. My wife and I talked about it last night, and we are both ready to “ramp it back up” and redo our budget. Here’s the process we go through for creating…

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College

A Bold Move

I just purchased some shares of RSP, an ETF which tracks the S&P 500.  RSP is an “equal weight” ETF.  It does not focus on the size of the companies that it invests in, but is comprised of equal portions of all the stocks in the S&P 500.  After yesterday’s pullback (free-fall?), I wanted to pick up some shares at…

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Resources, Savings

Get $2 For Signing-Up With Upromise

I use Upromise to earn rewards when I use my debit card.  If you’ve been thinking about signing-up with Upromise, now would be the time!  If you sign-up now, you’ll get $2 automatically credited to your account.  You can link your debit cards, grocery cards, and credit cards (boo!) to your Upromise account and receive rebates from several major companies. …

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