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Financial Lessons I Remember Learning From My Dad

November 7, 2013 by Justin Weinger

  Lately I’ve seen several great articles floating around about how to teach your kids about financial matters. As a father of 2 myself I tend to read every one of these posts that I can find, because I want to give my kids every opportunity to learn about effective money management when they are […]

Filed Under: Perspective, Stories Tagged With: personal, story

Result Of Disconnecting Cable TV

September 16, 2013 by Justin Weinger

  I was in my office at work the other day when a coworker came to my door. “I need some advice on which service to go with. Would you recommend Time Warner Cable or DirecTV”? I sat there looking at him for a moment, imagining myself just a few years ago asking the same […]

Filed Under: Decisions, Practical, Stories Tagged With: lifestyle, personal, story

Planning To Have Kids? Don’t Buy That Minivan Just Yet

September 9, 2013 by Justin Weinger

  During the phase of my life where I was wooing my wife to marry me, several of my friends were already in the family-building phase. When your first child comes along there’s an incredible sense of excitement, anticipation, and discovery. I saw it in their lives firsthand, and now that I have a couple […]

Filed Under: Decisions Tagged With: enough, house, lifestyle, mortgage, story

Imagine The Freedom Of Owning A House With No Mortgage

September 3, 2013 by Justin Weinger

  If you hang out at this site for any length of time, you’ll find that I write quite a bit about housing, mortgages, and lifestyles. I believe that we can very easily set ourselves up for financial failure simply by setting unrealistic expectations, and then using debt to fund those expectations. Mortgages, for most […]

Filed Under: Decisions, Stories Tagged With: earlypaymentcalc, house, mortgage, story

Side Hustling Lessons I Learned as a Guinea Pig

August 30, 2013 by Justin Weinger

  One of my first side hustles after I started working full-time was as a “healthy volunteer” i.e. guinea pig for clinical studies.  My full-time job was as a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health, and right on the same campus were tons of opportunities to make money on the side by letting […]

Filed Under: Decisions Tagged With: goals, networking, personal, story

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