Examiner January 17th

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Finding the right financial balance

When it comes to your finances, what do you get excited about?

Is it saving 72 cents on a head a cabbage or working a swing shift for time and a half? Is it decorating your bathroom or taking a trip to Alaska? Maybe you get energized by excel spreadsheets and asset allocations. Weirdos.

Confession? I am a weirdo. Mostly I get excited about learning, about the process between "I don't even know what that word even means" to "here's what I know so far."

Asking a professional, appealing to the experts like those people with degrees in economics and millions of dollars earned advising those of use without millions of dollars can be overwhelming. Do your eyes begin to cross when you hear the techno garble spew? Besides, here are people who know very little about your life! Much less than you do.

This page is about finding the balance between the overextended consumer and the dryer lint saving frugalist. It's about exploring options, determining personal values and executing and adapting a plan to enjoy life, manage money and have fun doing so. Instead of giving a set of rules everyone should be following we'll look at the options so you can make the best decision to fit your lifestyle.

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