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Micawber’s Favorites – September 23, 2017
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Links to some of my favorite recent articles on money and life: Replace Chore Charts With Requests to Promote a Proactive Work Ethic by Bill Dwight at Family Finance Favs I wish I would have learned about this idea when my kids were young. Children need some money of their own to learn how to…
Investing, Money Parables
Building a Sound Financial Ship
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Almost everyone is familiar with the tragic story of the Titanic, but did you know that the Titanic wasn’t the first “unsinkable” ship to meet disaster on her maiden voyage? On August 10, 1628, nearly 300 years before the Titanic disaster, the mighty Swedish warship Vasa set sail from Stockholm harbor. The recently completed ship…
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Heart Trouble – Weekly Money Quote (September 17, 2017)
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Micawber’s Favorites – September 16, 2017
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Links to some of my favorite recent articles on money and life: Money Lessons from My Oma’s Tomatoes by Chris at From Rags to Reasonable Stories are the best way to teach, especially when they are true, and this is a great story that teaches a valuable lesson. This article is well-written, fun to read,…
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A Small Sacrifice that Can Change the World
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There is far too much suffering in the world and with the saturation of media this suffering is constantly in our view. We are regularly bombarded by images of victims of natural disasters, civilians fleeing war zones, immigrants in refugee camps, famine victims without enough to eat, and the homeless living in our own communities.…