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  • August 11, 2018
  • by Emily

Nine Types of Wealth You Can’t Measure with Money

What does it mean to be wealthy? Most financial advisors will give you a narrow definition - it’s all about how much money you have. Wealth equates to "an abundance", but if money is prioritized above all else so many other important things are sacrificed.

Financial Literacy

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Nine Types of Wealth You Can’t Measure with Money
Nine Types of Wealth You Can’t Measure with Money
  • August 11, 2018
  • by Emily

Nine Types of Wealth You Can’t Measure with Money

What does it mean to be wealthy? Most financial advisors will give you a narrow definition - it’s all about how much money you have. Wealth equates to "an abundance", but if money is prioritized ...

Financial Literacy

Read More...

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Five Ways to Live Rent Free

Five Ways to Live Rent Free

These strategies don’t fit into the mainstream idea of what you “should” be doing as an adult. But if you really want to live rent free, here are a few ideas.

Personal Finance, Homes and Real Estate

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How to Talk About Money with Kids Age Preteen and Older

How to Talk About Money with Kids Age Preteen and Older

As your kids enter the pre-teen years, it’s important to keep talking about money—but you’re going to be more open and honest than before and you’ll be ready to address more complex financial issues. Here ...

Family and Finances

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What a Legal Expert Has to Say About Popular Scams and Con Games

What a Legal Expert Has to Say About Popular Scams and Con Games

When it comes to money, if it seems unusual or too good to be true, it means you are being targeted by a scammer. This post explains a few scams relying on financial ignorance that ...

Risk Reduction

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What Is Special About Net Worth and Why Winners Track Theirs

What Is Special About Net Worth and Why Winners Track Theirs

Net worth isn’t just for rich people to “keep score” in an endless game of getting more. It is a key indicator of everyone’s financial health. Income, job title, and especially what car a person ...

Financial Literacy, Net Worth

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What Is Asset Allocation?

What Is Asset Allocation?

Knowing your asset allocation is essential to being a successful investor. It tells what percentage of your overall portfolio is in stocks, bonds, and other investment vehicles like real estate, precious metals, etc.

Financial Literacy

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Are You Addicted to Shopping? 5 Tips To Stop

Are You Addicted to Shopping? 5 Tips To Stop

Do you shop for entertainment “because baby I’m worth it”??? Does it cause stress later? Scientifically speaking leisure shopping triggers a brain high. Here are some tips to manage it and a strategy to stay ...

Budgeting

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Why Tracking Expenses Is Essential to Developing a Budget

Why Tracking Expenses Is Essential to Developing a Budget

The first step towards getting control of your finances is figuring out where your money is going, which means tracking all of your expenditures. Ideally you should do this on a regular basis, down to ...

Personal Finance

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Talking to Your Kids About Money - Starting the Conversation

Talking to Your Kids About Money - Starting the Conversation

Talking about money with your kids in an age-appropriate way can help ensure that they grow up with a solid understanding of both how money works as well as how to manage it.

Family and Finances

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Save Money By Comparing EOBs with Medical Bills

Save Money By Comparing EOBs with Medical Bills

Are you one of those people who get a letter from your insurance company in the mail, open it to see that it's not a bill, crumble it up into a wrinkled ball, and then ...

Personal Finance

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Everything You Need To Know To Retire At 30 - FIRE

Everything You Need To Know To Retire At 30 - FIRE

Retiring at age 65 sounds nice—but doesn’t retirement at age 30 sound even better? That’s the idea behind FIRE, which stands for Financial Independence Retire Early. The concepts that go into it will help you ...

Personal Finance

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Net Worth Defined With Precision

Net Worth Defined With Precision

Net worth, the yard stick for comparing financial success is a loosely defined term (irritatingly so to our brains). See our diagram for the break down of "total" vs "investable" net worth. After you read ...

Financial Literacy, Net Worth

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Why Higher Income Doesn’t Always Equal Higher Net Worth

Why Higher Income Doesn’t Always Equal Higher Net Worth

When people talk about being wealthy or “rich,” they rarely pause to define wealth—this is true when you’re talking to a neighbor but also often true when you’re reading about wealth in the newspaper. So ...

Net Worth

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