Posts for My Journey to Millions


What is Wrong With Chasing Bank Rates

From My Journey to Millions
March 12, 2010 at 10:14 am
This is a guest post from MD of Studenomics. If you like what you see then subscribe to the RSS feed as it approaches the 1k mark. It took me forever to join ING Direct. Sure ... (more)

Comparatively Speaking A Million Dollars is Still a lot of Freaking Money

From My Journey to Millions
March 10, 2010 at 1:50 am
I read a news story recently that reminded me that I hate when I hear, “a million dollars is not what it used to be.”    Well duh!  But come on it is still a lot of money, ... (more)

Evan By The Numbers March 2010

From My Journey to Millions
March 8, 2010 at 2:10 am
One of the main reasons that I started this blog was to hold myself accountable, since I truly believe that Accountability Leads to Success when dealing with personal finance and ... (more)

Don’t Blame Others for Your Debt Get up and Do Something About It!

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March 5, 2010 at 2:13 am

When is ignoring debt a good idea? Never.  What about blaming others for a debt? Never.   A buddy of mine called me today under the guise that he had a legal question.

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Experiences with Auto Refinancing – HELP ME!

From My Journey to Millions
March 3, 2010 at 1:48 am
When I first decided to speed up the payments for my auto loan I didn’t want to refinance or research refinancing because my credit score wasn’t anything substantially higher ... (more)

My Favorite Saying and a Cool New Personal Finance Blogging Group

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March 2, 2010 at 1:34 am

This has very little to do with personal finance, but since its my blog I’ll share it anyway!  I am completely stealing this from my boss, but one of my favorite sayings is,
I

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Picking Dividend Aristocrat Stocks

From My Journey to Millions
February 25, 2010 at 1:33 am
I recently explained that I want to set up a dividend paying portfolio.  In that post I went over how I planned on starting to create this perpetual passive income account. ... (more)

My Introduction to Dividend Investing and Multiple Streams of Income

From My Journey to Millions
February 24, 2010 at 2:00 am
Throughout the life of this blog I have talked about my desire to create multiple streams of income.  While I have been trying to do more side legal work in addition to my day ... (more)

Why Does Everyone Hate on Financial Planners? Defending Financial Advisors

From My Journey to Millions
February 22, 2010 at 2:02 am
Almost every personal finance blog out there (even the best of the best on my blogroll) hates on financial planners, financial advisors, investment advisors, etc., but I don’t ... (more)

What is the Middle Class Task Force and Who is on it?

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February 19, 2010 at 2:03 am

I never knew until today that the Obama Administration, in his/their infinite wisdom, created The Middle Class Task Force.  According to the White House the Middle Class Task

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How Financial Planners SHOULD Act

From My Journey to Millions
February 17, 2010 at 11:23 am
Due to my position at work, I get a ton of trade magazines on a daily basis.  It just so happens that “trade” in this case means law, money, financial planning magazines ... (more)

Good Humanitarian or Personal Finance D-Bag?

From My Journey to Millions
February 15, 2010 at 2:02 am
For Valentine’s Day The Wife and I took a trip into “The City” a/k/a New York City to visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met).  My Beautiful Bride is a little ... (more)

Party of “No”? That is Just Garbage Populist Rhetoric

From My Journey to Millions
February 11, 2010 at 2:04 am
I am not sure if this is beyond the scope of this blog, especially since my last post was a political quiz, but its my blog so I can complain on it if I want!  Can someone explain ... (more)

The Definition of Liberal & Conservative

From My Journey to Millions
February 9, 2010 at 1:56 am
I am often asked, how do “I” know where I land on the political spectrum?  What do the terms liberal and conservative, actually mean?  Usually I point the person ... (more)

Why the Type of Life Insurance you Buy Doesn’t Matter

From My Journey to Millions
February 8, 2010 at 11:18 am
This is a guest post by Aaron, the president of Clarifinancial – the only way to get custom life insurance quotes from multiple agents anonymously. Because they let real life ... (more)

Thank You Fellow Bloggers!

From My Journey to Millions
February 5, 2010 at 11:14 am
In today’s internet, I feel like people don’t usually check out the a blogger’s blogroll, so as a way to say thank you I wanted to list the blogs that I read ... (more)

Are Prepaid Debit Cards Worth it? Pros and Cons of Using Prepaid Debit Cards

From My Journey to Millions
February 4, 2010 at 10:28 am
This is a guest post from ACE Express.  If you have any questions about prepaid debit cards you can check their FAQ.    Prepaid debit cards offer the ease of a credit card ... (more)

Switzerland Oldest Bank Says F.U. America

From My Journey to Millions
February 3, 2010 at 11:41 am
When everything was going down with UBS, a different Swiss banking firm came out with a very strongly worded letter bashing the United States.  I have no idea how this possibly got past ... (more)

Three Common Qualities of High Net Worth Individual’s Balance Sheets

From My Journey to Millions
January 31, 2010 at 7:55 pm
I recently wrote that it doesn’t matter whether you make $46,000 a year or $460,000 the basics of personal finance are always the same, and one of my readers/fellow blogger, ... (more)

Is there Anything More Important than Money when it comes to a Job?

From My Journey to Millions
January 27, 2010 at 11:34 am
There are a ton of people who either love their job, but hate the pay; and, alternatively, there are a ton of people who hate their job but the money is just too much to pass ... (more)

The 241st Carnival of Personal Finance

From My Journey to Millions
January 25, 2010 at 2:03 am
I was excited to be picked to host the 241st Edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance.  There were over 70 submissions to the Carnival this week!  I have read every ... (more)

Carnival of Money Stories 2

From My Journey to Millions
January 25, 2010 at 1:30 am
I like hosting in Carnivals because it forces me to read a ton of usually great posts from authors and bloggers that I don’t usually check out.  Carnival of Money Stories ... (more)

The Basics of Personal Finance are Not Hard It Doesn’t Matter if you Make $46,000 or $460,000

From My Journey to Millions
January 22, 2010 at 1:20 am
Every single day at work, I discuss multimillion dollar estates.  Every day I get to work with balance sheets with numbers I can only dream about…hell with numbers anyone can ... (more)

Why Doesn’t Anyone Feel Remorse When it Comes to High Earners and Income Taxes?

From My Journey to Millions
January 20, 2010 at 1:56 am
A bad ass blogger, Financial Samurai, made a comment on my blog today that really got to me.  His comment was in response to my post Listing Most of Obama’s Proposed Taxes. ... (more)

All of Obama’s Proposed Taxes Listed (well not All because there are just too many)!

From My Journey to Millions
January 19, 2010 at 1:29 am
I have never hidden my disdain for big government regardless of what political party is in charge.  I am a libertarian at heart, but only in moderation, of course.  So I got ... (more)