Investing 101 Series part 3

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This is the third installment of a series of blog posts about investing….the hows and whys. I originally posted  this series, with a few minor changes, at Daily Money Shot as a guest blogger. As promised today’s post is about the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the NASDAQ.  It is important to know the [...]

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Life Changes

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One of my girlfriends called this week in need of an ear and maybe some advice. The jury is still out on that because quite honestly she already knew the answer. Maybe confirmation? Her dilemma is nothing new to a military spouse…change.  EXCEPT this change is in the form of military retirement. This is actually [...]

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Investing 101 Series part 2

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This is the second installment of a series of blog posts about investing….the hows and whys. I originally posted  this series, with a few minor changes, at Daily Money Shot as a guest blogger.   I briefly touched on mutual funds in my last post, but let me put it in layman’s terms: A mutual fund is [...]

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Just A Mom

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I just finished watching the season finale of Amazing Race with the Littles. Yeah, we are a tad behind, but in my defense it was 2 hours long and Friday night is the only night where I let the littlest Little stay up that late. We were so psyched that Bates and Anthony won, but [...]

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Investing 101 Series

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This is the beginning of a series of blog posts about investing….the hows and whys. I originally posted  this series, with a few minor changes, at Daily Money Shot as a guest blogger. Like some of you, I didn’t know the first thing about investing.  All I knew was that my future husband went down to [...]

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One Car Family

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We have made a HUGE family decision that I am totally nervous about. We decided to become a 1-car family. I know, scary sounding isn’t it? I hope I can do it. Why are we doing this nutty thing?  Our oldest child is moving away and wants to buy her daddy’s car. We have talked [...]

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A taste of humble pie

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A couple of weekends ago I got a good taste of humility. My 8 y.o. daughter participated in her first rodeo. She has been training for quite some time and was very excited.  I was excited for her. I posted the upcoming event on my FB timeline. I called my mother.  Everyone was anticipating pictures. [...]

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Can you ever save too much?

I had a chat with a 93 year old girlfriend.  Yep, my girlfriends are all ages. She is a hoot and a wealth of knowledge. I love spending time with her. She was telling me how she was annoyed that her bank issued her a revised 1099 and she had to get the local tax [...]

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Thrifty Shopping Part 2

Back in October I proudly wrote about my Thrifty Shopping . I saved a bunch of cash by shopping at this local twice yearly consignment sale. I was even proud to say that I don’t consign because I don’t have time. Well, I gave that some thought and decided to give it a shot. I [...]

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Maximizing Time

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My husband will be home on R&R soon. He may even be here while you are reading this. The kids are so excited. They haven’t seen their dad in 9 months. Chew on that for a while. I am filled with excitement, nervousness, and dread. Dread? you ask. Yep. Dread. I dread the “expectation” of [...]

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