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Should You Invest In A Rising Market?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you have money to invest, should you put it to work when stock prices are rising every day, or should you wait until the market goes down? Don’t time the market, figure out what your personal situation requires and work towards that. In hindsight, we all would have sold out of the market at the end of 2006!

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Frugal housing.

Finally Frugal

Last week, I was dithering about whether to pay down my second mortgage early, or start working on my student loan. I was questioning whether, with the sad state of the real estate market, throwing money at my second mortgage was really the intelligent thing to do, since I don't know whether I'll ever get that money back (I'm thinking not).

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How Long Should You Keep Financial Documents

Family Balance Sheet

Our personal bank has statements online all the way back to 2006. Some Ideas For Keeping Your Financial Records Organized: For our personal taxes, we keep a present year file for tax deduction documents, such as receipts for charitable contributions, mortgage tax payments, receipts for school and real estate taxes, Goodwill donations, etc.