When Your Adult Child Follows a Different (and Frustrating) Financial Path

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Understanding your adult child isn’t always easy. When your kid doesn’t follow the path you mapped out, what do you do? Experience frustration, for sure. Maybe argue to the point of rupturing your relationship. Perhaps shake your head and mutter, “Kids these days …” Or, after moving through the anger and disappointment, you could end …

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Can an Amazing DIY’er in her 50’s Save Enough for Retirement?

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This series, Small Steps, Big Changes, focuses on people starting the FI journey later in life. They may feel hopeless, overwhelmed, and unsure of how to put their financial house in order.  Does this sound like you? If so, welcome! Reading the Small Steps, Big Changes articles will show you that no matter how late …

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Five Tips for Living with your Teen During the Shut-Down

Living with your teen during the shut-down

Living with a teen while social distancing – it’s easy, right? Maybe you have a delightful teenager, who understands how hard it is for you to hold it all together during the pandemic. She helps with the dishes, willingly goes for walks with you, and pushes herself – without any prompting from you – to …

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How to Stay Home

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Just stay home! We all know that extreme social distancing is the only way to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. But we need to eat and get our prescription meds and take care of the other necessities of life. Especially if you’re older (ahem) or have other risk factors like a suppressed immune …

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For Newbies: FI Acronyms Defined

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Are you new to the Financial Independence (FI) community? If so, the many investment acronyms bandied about on FI blogs and podcasts probably have your head spinning. And not just investment acronyms. Financial independence bloggers and podcasters use an alphabet soup of acronyms for terms relating to real estate, health insurance, taxes, and more. Even …

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