The Help Aging Parent’s Want
You hear a lot about how adult children are wanting (or having) to help out their aging parents. You don’t really hear much about the help that those aging parents really want. I’m a...
Author: Marie
Review of: Learn to Earn
Learn to Earn A Beginner’s Guide to the Basics of Investing and Business by Peter Lynch and John Rothchild Summary: Peter Lynch, who grew Fidelity’s Magellon mutual fund from 18 million to 14 billion...
Develop Healthy Family Savings Habits
American families generally focus on the single family unit when developing savings habits and planning for the future. But often savings habits are passed on from one generation to the next and may be...
Junior Achievement Still Teaches Financial Literacy
Teaching kids about money and finances is becoming much more mainstream today than it used to be. Public schools are offering personal finance classes. Numerous websites advocate for financial literacy and various institutions and...
How to Teach Persistence
One of the key traits in becoming a millionaire (or indeed in any pursuit) involves persistence. Without it, you are likely to fail at earning or accumulating that much money. As Thomas Edison said:...
How to Get the Best Deal on Vacation Rentals
After owning a vacation rental for several years, I have discovered a few ways folks use to get deals and discounts on their vacation lodging. Here are my ‘insider’ tips. Negotiate. Unless you are...
What Can a Pre-Schooler Learn About Finances?
You may think your 2 – 5 year old child is way too young to start building a firm financial foundation, but there are many things they can and will learn as pre-schoolers, and...
How to Protect You and Yours Against Future Crisis
Although I basically have an optimistic view of humanities capacity to survive and thrive, there will always be some kind of crisis each generation must suffer and conquer. There are always two sides (at...
The Anticipation Effect
When I was young (in the 1950’s), one of my favorite books was about a suburban Midwest family. In it the wife and husband have a chance conversation about taking a trip to Paris....
Retirement Plan Required Distribution Strategies
Rare people with pensions today are lucky in more ways than one. In my experience, with a pension you are paid a certain amount of money, usually monthly and the pension usually has a...
