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Posted in Happiness, Money and Relationships on Mar 29th, 2010
After I wrote my last post on happiness vs. money, I thought a lot about how we let certain money rules get in the way of living our lives. Granted, “rules” like don’t spend more than 30% of your gross income on housing and save 10% of your paycheck are there to save us from [...]
Posted in Books, Good Reads on Mar 26th, 2010
Just finished Lewis’ latest book, The Big Short, and I had to get something down before I lose the buzz the book left me with. Michael Lewis’ book is the most informative, detailed, clear, and entertaining account of the subprime-mortgage disaster that brought the economy to its knees. If you’ve read When Genius Failed or [...]
Posted in Happiness on Mar 25th, 2010
By now we should all know that money can’t buy happiness. Happiness studies around the world have proven it and if you personally know any “rich” people, you know they don’t have it any easier than you or I do when it comes to being happy. But talk is cheap. It’s easy to repeat the [...]
Posted in Real Estate on Mar 24th, 2010
This is part III of a series on buying our first home. Part I was about us getting started, Part II was about the beginning of our search, and today starts off with a place M and I could see ourselves living in…finally. So there we were: standing in the midst of a three-bedroom condo [...]
