Archive for the ‘Insurance’ Category
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How I Almost Got Tricked into Buying Flood Insurance I Didn’t Need
I couple of months ago, I received an alarming letter in the mail. It was from my mortgage provider. The first sentence was: Dear Customer, Our records indicate that your flood insurance policy protecting certain structures located at the above property address has cancelled or expired on the date indicated above. Based on the location [...]
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Save Money on Car Insurance
Unhappy with what you are paying each year for auto insurance? Car insurance is one of those things topics that I’m extremely Lazy with. It seems like there are a billion factors. Sometimes it seems like you can change one area of your insurance by a small amount and save hundreds – and then in [...]
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Can You Plan for Unexpected Expenses?
When I think about the unexpected financial expenses the first thing that comes to mind is emergency funds. Most of the experts agree that having 6 months of income set aside for a financial emergency is necessary. In my head, that financial emergency is almost always the loss of a job. Perhaps that’s because I’ve [...]
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Should You Have an Emergency Charity Fund?
It’s no secret that one of my favorite blogs is Get Rich Slowly. Yesterday there was an article about how to coping with financial disaster. (My short answer see #14 of 16 Thoughts on Oprah’s Stanford Commencement Speech… Grieve properly, attend to the situation at hand, and get back to what was important before the [...]
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Tax the Unhealthy – Lazy Man’s Thoughts
[This is my response to a two-part guest post by Adfecto of Aspire 2 Wealth. You might want to read both part 1 and part 2 before continuing. The topic is controversial and as I imagined it drew many strong feelings from commenters] I’d like to address a few of the main points that Adfecto [...]
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Tax the Unhealthy? (Part 2)
[The following is part 2 of a two-part guest post by Adfecto from Aspire 2 Wealth. I recommend you read part 1 first. Though I initially disagreed with him, I admit that he made some great points. He was kind enough to consolidate many of those thoughts into two posts. If you like this article, [...]
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Tax the Unhealthy? (Part 1)
[The following is part 1 of a two part guest post by Adfecto from Aspire 2 Wealth. He left a great comment on this subject. Though I initially disagreed with him, he made some great points. He was kind enough to consolidate many of those thoughts into two posts. If you like this article, consider [...]
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They Are All Out To Get Me…
If it sounds like I’m paranoid, read on… USA Today has an article about security checks getting a little too personal. I don’t know about you, but if someone asks me questions that they shouldn’t know the answers to, I’m not going to give them. I know it’s fairly unlikely, but they could be using [...]
