Save Money On Your Hospital Bills Just By Asking

May 31, 2008

Medical Bills Are Sooooo Expensive My wife and I just went through an extremely expensive medical emergency in the past month where we ended up having to pay quite a bit of money to two different hospitals. Luckily we had health insurance (see yesterday’s post), and our liability was capped at $1800. Our emergency fund [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Get Rich Quick?

May 30, 2008

Dishonest money dwindles away, but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow. Proverbs 13:11 These days get rich quick schemes are a dime a dozen. You are told that you can buy and sell foreclosed houses and get rich quick! Try the newest currency trading exchange and get rich quick! Invest in [...]

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How To Find Cheap Gas Where You Live

May 30, 2008

Gas prices are going up At the end of last week I posted about gas prices, how they’re steadily rising, and ways you can cut back on your gas consumption. I’ve been starting to use some of those tips myself, and I have to admit – it isn’t as easy as I was hoping. I [...]

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Why Is It Important To Have Health Coverage, Even If You’re Healthy?

May 29, 2008

Are The Health Insurance Premiums Worth It? A question that I’ve struggled with over the past few years is whether the money my wife and I pay every month for health insurance premiums are really worth it. We’re paying thousands of dollars every year for coverage, and we could never really see much benefit. We’re [...]

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Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University: Week 2 – Relating With Money

May 28, 2008

In Review – Last Week Last week I talked about our first week in class for the Dave Ramsey’s “Financial Peace University” seminar that we’re taking with some other couples from our church. In that post we talked about how if you want to get out of debt and become financially solvent, you need to [...]

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Announcement: The Money Life Network of Blogs is now live!

May 27, 2008

Over the past couple of weeks several other bloggers and I have been putting together a new network of personal finance blogs. I was invited into the fold after some initial discussions and after much preparation we are now ready to launch! We have a great lineup of bloggers that we think will add a [...]

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Another Non-Frugal Expense: Landscaping Today

May 27, 2008

Today we’re about to embark on another non-frugal spending spree. This is something that I agreed to over a year ago, but we kept putting it off. Well the time has finally come. We’re finally going to be doing some landscaping in the front yard. We’re going to be adding two Hydrangea bushes, and a [...]

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How Much Gas Are You Wasting?

May 23, 2008

Gas Prices Are Going Up! This past week the gas prices here in Minnesota have been rising, and are now getting dangerously close to $4 a gallon. I’ve been trying to conserve gas, but this week my frugal ways may have gotten the better of me. I thought – I’ll wait one more day to [...]

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Book Review and Contest: Does Your Bag Have Holes?

May 22, 2008

Don’t forget, after the review, subscribe to the site via email or RSS, and then leave us a comment on this post, and you’ll be entered to win the book! I’ll be choosing a lucky winner tomorrow morning. If you already subscribed to the site via email or RSS and left a note on the [...]

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Wisdom and Understanding: Better Than Silver Or Gold!

May 21, 2008

Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding,for the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold. She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are [...]

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Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University: Week 1 – Super Saving

May 20, 2008

Signing Up For Class My wife and I started attending the Dave Ramsey “Financial Peace University” class a week or so ago through our church small group. We had some people in our group that were “Dave Ramsey evangelists”, and who thought that everyone should take the class at least once. “It’ll change the way [...]

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You’ve been given so much, now what will you do with it?

May 19, 2008

Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. 1 Corinthians 4:2 A common theme that keeps coming up in my bible study is that we are tasked with being good stewards of what we have been given. Whether we have been given money, special skills, or lots of [...]

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Does Your Bag Have Holes?: Choices and Consequences part 2

May 18, 2008

The following is an part 2 of an excerpt from a book I just read called “Does Your Bag Have Holes?. Read part 1 in yesterday’s post. The book was sent to me by the author Cameron C. Taylor, and is an excellent read (I’ll be doing a review shortly). This chapter on choices and [...]

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Does Your Bag Have Holes?: Choices and Consequences Part 1

May 17, 2008

The following is an excerpt from a book I just read called “Does Your Bag Have Holes?. The book was sent to me by the author Cameron C. Taylor, and is an excellent read (I’ll be doing a review shortly). This chapter on choices and consequences was an especially good one, and I thought I’d [...]

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