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How to Develop the Habit of Spending Less Than You Make

by DR

If I could write just one thing about achieving financial freedom, it would be this–spend less than you make. Like all habits that lead to financial freedom, spending less than you make is simple to understand, but hard to follow. For some reason, we always want more. At times in my life [...]

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The 123rd Carnival of Personal Finance (The Boo! edition)

by DR

Welcome to the 123rd Carnival of Personal Finance (The Boo! edition). October is a scary month. Not only is it home to All Hallows’ Eve, it is also home to some of the scariest stock market crashes in our history. For this edition of the CoPF, I’ll trace the history of some [...]

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My Best and Worst Financial Decisions

by DR

One of my goals for The Dough Roller is to get people to think about money and life in unique ways. This post is no exception. When you think of personal money management, what comes to mind? It may be saving in your 401(k), budgeting, home buying or the like. The [...]

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Would You Cash a 35 Cent Check?

by DR

Two days ago I wouldn’t have known the answer to that question? Now I do and, I’m sorry to say, the answer for me is ‘Yes.’ Yesterday I spent 30 minutes traveling to my bank and back to cash a 35 cent check. Here’s the story and what I plan to do [...]

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Weekly Dough Roller Roundup (Massive Just Got Back from Vacation Edition)

by DR

Having been away for nearly two weeks, I have a lot of catching up to do. So here is the best of the best money management resources (from my perspective, of course) over the last two weeks:

Carnival of Investing Strategies, July 8, 2007 Edition:
TheFinancialWhiz.com hosted the Carnival of Investing Strategies. Included [...]

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Raising Quicken Kids

by DR

I’m always looking for ways to raise my kids’ appreciation for money. Recently, we started something that has had positive results–we set up checking and savings accounts for our kids in Quicken. The accounts aren’t linked to actual bank accounts–mom and dad keep the money. We track in the checking accounts all [...]

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Five Million Easy Steps to Financial Independence

by DR

This is one of those good news–bad news situations. Which do you want to hear first? Before we get to that, I was in the bookstore yesterday and noticed that there are a lot of “X steps to Financial Freedom” type books. Here are a few that I saw:

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