14 Secrets Every Parent Should Know Before Talking To Their Kids About Money

[share_sc] This is a guest post by Ivan Chan. Ivan is the founder of Wealthy Without Worry, a Star Wars fan and a martial artist. He loves to share with other busy professionals personal stories and simple ways to manage money and worry less in life. Follow Ivan on Facebook and Twitter. Your child is looking up at …

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The Taxes Are Paid: Joan’s Mid-April Financial Update

[share_sc] Note: This is a post from Joan Concilio, Man Vs. Debt community manager. Read more about Joan. Back in February, I shared that we needed to pay the IRS $7,104 by April 15. Last month, I said that it looked like we were well on track. Well, break out the party hats… We wrote the check April …

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Our Family Bookstore: From Amazon to Antique Mall

[share_sc] Note: This is a post from Joan Concilio, Man Vs. Debt community manager. Read more about Joan. If you’ve followed our family’s story here on Man Vs. Debt for a while, you might know that we have a fairly decent long-term side hustle selling used books and ephemera (old magazines and papers). Since 2005, we’ve sold …

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My “Deprived” Son: What I’ve Learned So Far Raising a (Mostly) Plastic-Free Kid on a Budget

[share_sc] The most oft-recited “nugget” about kids, besides that they don’t let you sleep, is that they’re expensive. Calculators exist so you can estimate how much money you’re going to spend on them in a given year. (Oddly, most of these calculators don’t include health insurance which is, so far, the only thing we’ve spent …

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What I Learned From Gretchen Rubin’s Paradoxes of Happiness

[share_sc] Note: This is a post from Courtney Baker, chief seller and long-time running wo-man of MvD. For several months now, I’ve been conducting monthly challenges. They’ve included writing every day, not cooking for a whole month, calling old friends, leaving yelp reviews for businesses I love, walking 10,000 steps a day, tracking my expenses, …

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