Tag: financial freedom
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DCPAS Offers Lame Financial Tips in the Furlough Special Edition and Here’s Why
This week, the Defense Civilian Personnel Advisory Service (DCPAS) sent out a BENEFACTS “Furlough Special Edition” newsletter to advise the approximately 800,000 Department of Defense employees about their benefits, plus offer a page of financial tips for “Financial Fitness.” Since guidance on how Federal employees are to take their furlough days, how benefits are affected,…
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Retail Therapy and Spirituality
This post on retail therapy is post #7 in my series on financial freedom and spirituality. I have a horrible financial confession to make. In month #4 of my focus on financial freedom and spirituality, I have gotten off course with my budget. No, I didn’t buy emergency-worker-yellow high heels to wear, but they did…
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Furlough Preparation: Paying off Car Loans with Ebook Sales
This post on paying off car loans with ebook sales is post #5 in my series on financial freedom and spirituality. In my last post, I talked about using near-zero-interest-rate savings to pay off a big chunk of my car loan. With a safe cushion in the bank and all but the last 9 months…
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Keeping Savings Accounts vs Paying Off Debt
This post on savings accounts vs paying down debt is post #4 in my series on financial freedom and spirituality. This post on savings accounts vs paying down debt is post #4 in my series on financial freedom and spirituality. Once I had paid off my monthly bills and the ones due in the next…
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Trading Credit Cards with Rewards Programs for Cash-Flowing Bills
This post on cash-flowing vs credit cards is post #3 in my series on financial freedom and spirituality. When I decided to pay off the car, then the house, I sat down and came up with a plan…naturally…and found a few chinks in the plan right away. First of all, I didn’t have extra cash…