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Favorite Posts, Mentions, and Top Comments Week of 13October2013

October 20th, 2013 | 5 Comments

Another uneventful week for us – I’m still doing my normal activities and Kyle is still thesis-writing like a madman.  I’m trying to get some work out to my collaborators but it hasn’t been going terribly well.  The timing of this retreat that I’m on (I’m in Wilmington, NC!) wasn’t the greatest for that reason, but isn’t that always how it goes?  I’m happy for the break in routine!   I have a guest post up at Get Rich Slowly this morning – please check it out and leave me comments!     Posts I Liked   My Money Design shows graphically how to prepare for early retirement with savings, investments, and passive income.   Robert from The College Investor retells in detail how he set up his will and trust.   Michelle from Making Sense of Cents is considering long-term … Read entire article »

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Favorite Posts, Mentions, and Top Comments Week of 6October2013

October 13th, 2013 | 4 Comments

Nothing out of the ordinary to report this week.  Just lots of work for me and lots of thesis-writing for Kyle.   Oh, and I decided at the last second to attend a retreat with my church next weekend so that’s $110.  I’ve said a zillion times recently that I need a vacation so this is a good holdover until Thanksgiving/Christmas/Kyle’s defense.     Posts I Liked   Congratulations to Eric on his engagement and Cat on her pregnancy!   Cat from My Personal Finance Journey plans on renting for another decade.   Pauline from Reach Financial Independence has a budget for people who hate budgets.   Tonya from Budget and the Beach jumped on a great deal on a trip to Iceland.     Mentions   Jacob from iHeartBudgets listed The 3 to 6 Month Emergency Fund in his good reads.     Carnivals   Losing Half Our Buffer was featured in the Carnival … Read entire article »

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Weekly Update 18

June 3rd, 2012 | 6 Comments

Right now we are in the mountains of North Carolina on a retreat with our graduate Christian group!  We’ve been hiking and swimming and hanging out and having a lovely time.  We also had a really good small group meeting this week and I had one really successful morning at work!   This week I attended my first meeting of the financial literacy committee at my university.  They recently launched a website and have been putting on workshops related to personal finance for the last few years.  I’m excited to see how I can get involved!     Posts I Liked   John from Married (with Debt) describes private mortgage insurance as a shadow debt.   The Happy Homeowner wrote at The College Investor some insights into developing an emergency fund.   Melissa from Bible Money Matters argues for continuing to … Read entire article »

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Weekly Update 15

May 13th, 2012 | 14 Comments

Last Sunday and Monday I went to a departmental retreat near-ish to the NC coast.  While it’s never been an awesome time, I had the most fun this year of any of the four I have attended.  We got a very nice carpool group together for the 7 hours of driving we did over two days and had great conversations.  The talks were all really interesting and I had a nice conversation with two late-stage PhD candidates about “alternate” career options.   The other fun event we had this week was hanging out with another couple on Friday evening.  We played Pandemic; I usually don’t like games of strategy but this was a cooperative one so I enjoyed it a lot.  We were having such a good time we stayed until after … Read entire article »

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