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Money and Life in Your Forties

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Set aside as much as you can for your retirement years now, if you haven’t already met those goals. Being out of the work force to raise babies put me behind on the retirement savings front, but I caught up through regular 401k contributions, and additional IRA savings and ended up with more than most people do put aside.

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P.E.P. for the Week of January 24-28, 2010- Adjustment Edition

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As some of you know, one of my goals for 2011 is to become a certified fitness professional. The goal was to be certified by summer. In order to go to Asia we have to get 4 visas which is a tedious process and takes a lot of time. Moolanomy tells us how we can reach our savings goals by using virtual bank accounts.

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

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” Squeezer presents Instructions on how to get started in dividend reinvestment plans (DRIPs) posted at Personal Finance Success , saying, ” I give my thought processes and what to look for when wanting to invest in a dividend paying company. I explain how to get started by purchasing the minimum amount of shares or dollars.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #231

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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. Cash Flow Mantra presents My Experience as a Prosper Borrower posted at Cash Flow Mantra , saying, “I used Prosper to finance a loan to pay a large tax bill, and I found the process effortless.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #241 – June 15, 2012

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” Managing Debt Bob presents How to remove a co-signer from a loan posted at Christian Personal Finance , saying, “When I was going through the process of getting a student loan for my first year at college – I thought little of the fact that my dad stepped in to cosign my student loan. ” That concludes this edition.

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