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Do What Drives You
Show Summary Hey everyone, welcome back to the show! Today, I am going to talk about living a life of meaning and passion! I’ve changed a number of things in my business…
How To Save Money On Holiday Shopping
The holidays are here, and so is the holiday shopping season. The average person spends around $900 on gifts for the holiday season. That amount doesn’t even account for other holiday spending, such as travel costs, food, get togethers, decorations, and more. Some people even go into credit card debt to spend for the holidays, but […]
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How Supporting Adult Children Can Ruin Your Retirement
When parents put their own retirement savings last, everyone suffers. Here are four reasons parents should fund their retirement BEFORE they consider helping their adult children with money.
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4 Mind & Behavioral Tricks to Help You Save
If your goal is to save money, budgeting and tracking your spending can go a very long way. But now, thanks to science, there are some new discoveries proving that building wealth and having more self-control around spending has much ado with having the right mindset and certain disciplines. Consider these four behavioral tricks that
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Does the American dream require a big American home?
This is a guest post from Steve Adcock, who writes at Think Save Retire, a blog about early retirement and Financial Independence. Steve and his wife retired in their mid-thirties to travel full time in an Airstream trailer. For more info, check out their YouTube channel.
One of the most deeply-embedded pieces of the âAmerican Dreamâ is the desire for a large, spacious home with lots of sitting rooms, corners, nooks, and crannies. Large dining rooms and other entertainment spaces! Wrap-around porches! Two- or three-stall garages and one heck of a master suite!
To many of us, a large home is a mark of success. A big house indicate status, and the more space weâre able to call our own, the more successful we look and feel.
But, what if I told you that most of us donât use even a fraction of that space? Thatâs not just me talking. A research team affiliated with the University of California studied American families and where they hung out the most inside their homes, how (and where) clutter builds, and the general stress level associated with living big.
The findings were overwhelming: The majority of the space in our homes is wasted.
How We Use Our Homes
As J.D. shared on Saturday, researchers at UCLA conducted a detailed study of 32 dual-income families living in the Los Angeles area, one of the first studies to document so vividly how we interact with the things for which weâve paid good money. The findings were not pretty. In fact, they helped prove how little we use our big homes for things other than clutter or objects that hold little intrinsic value.
From the press release:
The researchers doggedly videotaped the activities of family members, tracked their every move with position-locating devices and documented their homes, yards and activities with reams and reams of photographs. They asked family members to narrate videotaped tours of their homes and took measurements at regular intervals of stress hormones via saliva samples.
When I originally wrote about the study, I took special note of where families spent the large majority of their time. In the following UCLA-published diagram of one family that was studied, we can easily observe a truth thatâs probably common among so many of us: We tend to congregate around two primary areas of the home: food preparation/eating and television.
While this diagram only represents a single family, the results of the study suggest that this family is very typical of most of those studied, and the majority of traditional homes.
How to Save for An Epic Backpacking Trip
Exotic vacations around the world appear to be luxurious, but those pristine beaches and amazing mountain hikes are available to anyone at any cost! Seeing the world and all of its beauty can be done on a tight budget, which is why backpacking has become such a trend in the last couple of decades. From
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Best Time To Buy A Car + Tips To Saving BIG When You Buy Your New Ride
Getting a new car is one of the better feelings in life, I’ll admit. But, itâs also one of the biggest financial transactions most people make. Get a good deal, and you’ll save a ton of money over the life of the car. Strike a bad deal, and it can haunt you for years. It […]
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Fashion Designer Allen Schwartz is Selling his Whimsical L.A. Home, the Sycamore Ranch
Los Angeles-based designer Allen Schwartz first hit the fashion scene back in 1982, when he launched his ABS by Allen Schwartz brand. Heâs always been fashion-forward, and in 2017, he realized that it was time for a revamp, so he re-branded his business to cater to the needs of the modern woman. Three years later, […]
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Investing for beginners: How to buy stocks
Setting up an online brokerage account is fast, and if you’d rather be hands-off, a robo-advisor can do the stock-picking for you.Setting up an online brokerage account is fast, and if you’d rather be hands-off, a robo-advisor can do the stock-picking for you.
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