Priorities Archive

  • Make choices about your lifestyle

    Tweet The difference between having the money to travel or not, could very well be the cost of what you consider basics, but others consider to be luxuries. Someone who may not seem to make a lot of money but travels a lot may not […]

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  • The Idiot: When should you go for the job with the lower salary?

    Tweet The answer? When its other benefits are worth it to you. It’s an idiot story coming up. If you hate reading about me railing on other people, I suggest you skip this post. THE IDIOT STORY TIME So The Idiot whom I’ve written about […]

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  • Why save for retirement while you clear your debt?

    Tweet Reader Earin (obviously from Europe, as they wrote in using the € symbol ;)), asked why someone would save for retirement if they were clearing their debt. My question is, wouldn’t it be wiser to not save for retirement as long as one has […]

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  • Living the Dream

    Tweet There is a family we met in Portugal who are blue collar workers – a mechanic and a school assistant. They have a small farm on the side with 600 olive trees to import to the States, and a smaller home farm. They make […]

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  • No one really wants to cut back.

    Tweet It seems as though everyone would rather make more money than cut back on expenses. Just the other day, I heard the following lines coming out of The Idiot: “We don’t have any money coming in now, but we CAN’T give up cable TV! […]

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