Archive for December, 2009

Quick Video Intro to the Envelope System

The envelope system is a method recommended my many financial professionals (including Dave Ramsey) for making a quick and easy budget. The above video is a short, straight-forward introduction to using this system.

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Think About Retirement Differently

Stefan Sagmeister recommends a powerfully different way of thinking about retirement. For most people, retirement looks like this:

Grow up and learn for 25 years, work for 45 years and at the end take 15 years of retirement.
Sagmeister arranges his life differently:

Instead of taking the 15 years of retirement at the end, he chops off [...]

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