My Journey to Millions

Don’t Accidently Forgo Your Charitable Intent at Death

Evan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:39:34 +0000

Even those with strong charitable intents (religious or otherwise), actually fail to provide for the charities of their choice at death. In essence their charitable intent is often ignored, and it is usually by mistake! I was reading a Last Will and Testament of a high net worth client the other day, and came across a very interesting [...]

What is Intestacy? Don’t Let the State Determine Where your Assets Go!

Evan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:59:07 +0000

Regardless of whether you know it or not you have a Will – the Will is called Intestate Distribution and is determined by the State Legislature.

When one dies without a Will it is often said he or she died intestate, and their Will enters Intestacy. I am sure different parts of the country refer to [...]

How Much Interest do I pay to Financing Companies and Banks? TOO MUCH!

Evan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:43:20 +0000

This post was inspired by a post written by Patrick at Cash Money Life titled, “Do you Know How Much Interest You are Paying Each Month” and Matt Jabs at Debt Free Adventure titled, “How Much Interest am I Paying? Hint…its Less.” Interestingly Patrick uses just examples, and Matt uses his real numbers.

When I read [...]

Living Paycheck to Paycheck Could Cost you Your Life

Evan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:09:04 +0000

I recently came up with a theory, and as you would guess from the title, it has to do with the cost associated with living paycheck to paycheck.

Living Paycheck to Paycheck forces you to want time to go by faster thereby causing you to purposefully miss life

When you need that paycheck to come you want [...]

Sometimes in Life You have to Ignore the Costs

Evan — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:43:35 +0000

This post is inspired by my Dog’s 5th Birthday – I love my dog, and I don’t care if she is the right or wrong personal finance decision. Sometimes, you have to ignore the right thing, mathematically, and live your life. So please meet my dog, Tinkerbell:

No, she is not manly nor does she have [...]

My Experience with Quicken Online

Evan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:17:46 +0000

I have never really gotten into budget software packages; I think it is stems from my original feelings that I didn’t want nor need a Budget. After starting this blog and getting my finances in order, my feelings about the subject changed and The Wife and I created a Plan. Despite the change in feelings, I never picked [...]

Is the IRS Getting Smarter or is The IRS Attacking the Wealthy Yet Again?

Evan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:51:00 +0000

Last year, I wrote that it was inevitable that Estate Audits were Going to Increase. The reason Estate Audits were going to increase was inevitable – there were/are less people who are subject to the estate tax, but no auditors were being fired (i.e. they have nothing else to do lol). Well it seems that [...]

215th Edition of the Carnival of Debt Reduction

Evan — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:30:00 +0000

I am happy to host the 215th Edition of the Carnival of Debt Reduction. The Carnival of Debt Reduction is,

a weekly blog carnival that highlights posts on getting out of debt. Personal debt reduction progress reports and posts about reducing debt are what this carnival is all about!

All Financial Matters host the 214th Edition of [...]

Create Your Own Pension Using Whole Life Insurance

Evan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:33:00 +0000

In order to fully understand this post I am going to have to ask you to put down your $19.95 Suze Orman book or shut off your podcast of Dave Ramsey â€“ and give me a chance to describe and illustrate how to create your own Pension Using Whole Life Insurance before leaving me comments [...]

I Won a $1,000 – What am I going to Do With It?

Evan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:00:37 +0000

I am not sure if it was fate, or what, but days after I read FCN’s, “What Would You Would Do with a $1,000” I actually won $1,000!Â Â Actually, I won $1,260 through a 50/50 raffle for a buddy’s church ($20 ticket) but I told the church to keep $260 of it.Â I am not [...]