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What Makes a Saver?

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If you don’t have enough money to put food on the table, you are going to do something about it. Once we hit retirement, assuming your saving efforts have been successful, we might once again become spenders – pursuing delayed goals and dreams. For some, having an unmet need is enough to make a saver.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #236 – May 11, 2012

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John presents The Goal of Work is Retirement: Rule 10 posted at Married with Debt , saying, “This is Rule 10 in my 10 Rules to Eliminate Debt and Change Your Life The reasons I started Married with Debt are twofold: to help people get out of debt, and help them change their lives. I find myself looking more and more often.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #231

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It’s modeled much like Michael Pollans Food Rules with many one-page rules that give short but useful tidbits of information. Bloggers talk about it as the holy grail of personal finance and many of them have the goal of retiring early at 40, 45 or 50 years old.

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