What If Wednesday: You Won the Lottery. Now What?


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What If Wednesday: You Won the Lottery

In the What If Wednesday series, we transport to a hypothetical alternate-reality and watch life play out. And we do it on Wednesday, because alliteration. Against your better judgement, you bought a lottery ticket for the $5 million dollar jackpot. Your crazy, impulsive friend kept taunting you with “But what…

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OFB Baby Update: Eight Months


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Baby Bucks

In the Baby Bucks series, we babble about babies and money and sleep deprivation and cuteness overload. In that order. General Baby Thoughts All I can say is “Where did the time go?” Last night Johnny and I were oohing and ahhing over our girl’s newborn pictures. On the one…

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How to Set Financial Goals (Part II)


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Earlier this week I rambled on about the importance of setting goals. And now onto the nitty gritty — the actual goal setting! When Johnny and I are setting short-term and long-term goals, we always flesh out the long-term goals first. And how do we do that? Well we ask…

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How to Set Financial Goals (Part I)


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How to Set Financial Goals (Part I)

Moving has a way of derailing your budget. Well, really, it has a way of pretty much derailing everything: your budget, your daily routine, your weekly Japanese takeout, your… life! And it takes a while to get back on track, but Johnny and I are finally getting there. And one…

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