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Do You Practice What You Preach?

November 12th, 2014 | 24 Comments

Do You Practice What You Preach?

It’s so true that trying to teach a subject forces you to truly learn it. I’ve been working hard on preparing my presentation on personal finance for grad students (it’s tomorrow!) and it’s really helped me fill in some of the remaining gaps of my knowledge, particularly regarding debt acquisition and repayment. I haven’t had a lot of interaction with debt in my life, and the interactions that I have had didn’t make a big … Read entire article »

Filed under: debt, investing

The Thinking Person’s Guide to Dave Ramsey: Swapping Baby Step Order

December 18th, 2013 | 12 Comments

The Thinking Person’s Guide to Dave Ramsey: Swapping Baby Step Order

This is the fourth installment of this series on reasonable way to adapt Dave Ramsey’s Baby Steps program to fit your financial goals.  You may want to reference last week’s post on intra-Baby Step modifications to familiarize yourself with the steps before we dive into this week’s discussion of inter-Baby Step modifications.   The big difference between Dave Ramsey’s approach to managing debt and investments and other financial professionals’ is that Dave Ramsey does not care about … Read entire article »

Filed under: debt, savings

Important But Uninteresting PF Topics

October 28th, 2013 | 41 Comments

Important But Uninteresting PF Topics

I have read broadly on personal finance so I have a passing familiarity with a bunch of subjects, yet here on EPF I stick to writing in the areas of budgeting, finances in marriage, frugality, grad student finances, etc.  I don’t often write about debt because we’re not (really) in debt and don’t plan on getting into it again except for a mortgage.  I don’t often write about insurance because, after reading the recommendations, I … Read entire article »

Filed under: investing