If I had to wager, backdoor Roth IRA contributions are in the top 3 of #personalfinance Slack channel topics.
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Meg’s Musings: Thriving in the Time of Covid
Meg’s Musings: (Reducing) Spending Edition
Do you love your yoga practice? You can apply it to your finances.
Just getting on the mat is the hardest part.
Do you do yoga? Do you love yoga? I do. My yoga practices goes back 20 years (because, evidently, I’m Old), and I don’t know what I’d do without it. Over those years, I’ve accepted a lot of the lessons that yoga tries to teach you.
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Emergency funds. Yes, they’re boring. But do you actually have one that’s big enough?
You cannot cruise the internet without tripping over articles about the partial government shutdown and the increasingly horrible effects it’s having on many government workers and their finances and their psyches.
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Your HSA Is Better than Your 401(k) for Retirement Savings. Don’t Waste it on Actual Health Care Costs.
Like you, I’ve been going through Open Enrollment lately. Only I’ve been going through a whole bunch of open enrollments, for all of my clients. (It’s actually pretty cool, being able to compare—and, perforce, contrast—what a variety of tech companies offer to their employees.)
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What a yoga practice can teach you about building strong personal finances (Video)
If Amazon Makes You Spend More, Can These Apps Make You Save More?
We have all become accustomed to frictionless spending. To our detriment. Thank you, Amazon One-click, Prime, and Dash! Continue reading