Money and Finance
I'm sure most of you know that last year my wife and I bought a house. While we love the house the unfortunate thing is that we went from renting a fairly small house to owning a much larger one. One of the hidden costs in making that move was that we didn't have nearly enough furniture to really utilize our new house. So we made a trip down to the local furniture store and picked up a new living room and bedroom set and went to Sears to purchase a new refrigerator.
Since we were able to purchase everything at 0% interest we weren't in a big hurry to pay off the debt especially while the markets were still offering solid values. We figured why throw extra money towards our debt, especially at 0%, when that's such an easy hurdle to beat through investing. Mr. Market has continued his relentless march higher and it's been doubly bad because I'm sitting on a bunch of cash right now, much more than I'd like to. That's why I've been making a few more purchases over the last couple of weeks even though they haven't been at the most ideal valuations.
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- Becoming Fiscally Fit
Getting fit takes planning and patience. Whenever you want to make a change you have to find out where you are, decide where you want to be and then come up with a plan to get there. Each step is crucial in the process to becoming fit. That goes...
- Weekly Roundup - October 26, 2013
It's been a pretty crazy week for me and my wife. The joys of home-ownership started quickly as a one of the main branch roots for a tree at the new house busted out water line. When I got home I dug out the water line where the leak was coming...
- Weekly Roundup - September 7, 2013
Another week down and my wife and I are that much closer to closing on our house. My coordinator the job that I'm on right now has got a replacement for me to come out today so I can be home to close on the house on Monday. It'll be a big...
- Weekly Roundup - August 3, 2013
This past week went by extremely fast. As I've mentioned my wife and I are looking at purchasing a house and we spent most of our time while I was home looking at potential houses. We had put an offer in last week and it was accepted. Now I...
- Our Financial Past
Hi Everyone, Summer is bearing down on us quickly and my fiancé and I are in for a wild ride. We have 3 weddings to attend in June, plus a graduation party. In July we have Bachelor/ette parties every weekend, August is our wedding and then...
Money and Finance
Rethinking Our Debt Payoff Plan
I'm sure most of you know that last year my wife and I bought a house. While we love the house the unfortunate thing is that we went from renting a fairly small house to owning a much larger one. One of the hidden costs in making that move was that we didn't have nearly enough furniture to really utilize our new house. So we made a trip down to the local furniture store and picked up a new living room and bedroom set and went to Sears to purchase a new refrigerator.
Since we were able to purchase everything at 0% interest we weren't in a big hurry to pay off the debt especially while the markets were still offering solid values. We figured why throw extra money towards our debt, especially at 0%, when that's such an easy hurdle to beat through investing. Mr. Market has continued his relentless march higher and it's been doubly bad because I'm sitting on a bunch of cash right now, much more than I'd like to. That's why I've been making a few more purchases over the last couple of weeks even though they haven't been at the most ideal valuations.
Read more »
- Becoming Fiscally Fit
Getting fit takes planning and patience. Whenever you want to make a change you have to find out where you are, decide where you want to be and then come up with a plan to get there. Each step is crucial in the process to becoming fit. That goes...
- Weekly Roundup - October 26, 2013
It's been a pretty crazy week for me and my wife. The joys of home-ownership started quickly as a one of the main branch roots for a tree at the new house busted out water line. When I got home I dug out the water line where the leak was coming...
- Weekly Roundup - September 7, 2013
Another week down and my wife and I are that much closer to closing on our house. My coordinator the job that I'm on right now has got a replacement for me to come out today so I can be home to close on the house on Monday. It'll be a big...
- Weekly Roundup - August 3, 2013
This past week went by extremely fast. As I've mentioned my wife and I are looking at purchasing a house and we spent most of our time while I was home looking at potential houses. We had put an offer in last week and it was accepted. Now I...
- Our Financial Past
Hi Everyone, Summer is bearing down on us quickly and my fiancé and I are in for a wild ride. We have 3 weddings to attend in June, plus a graduation party. In July we have Bachelor/ette parties every weekend, August is our wedding and then...