I really don’t know how it happened, but we have one (or two) too many checking accounts for our family. Well, I actually do know how it happened. Over the years we got suckered into a few checking account sign-up bonuses. And overtime, I have realized that these sign up bonuses are really not worth […]
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My wife and I have a goal for all 3 of our children to graduate from a 4-year college with $0 in debt. This means no student loan debt for our kids … and no debt for my wife and I. We both managed to get out of college with almost no debt … partially […]
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At the start of every new month, we publish an update on our family’s net worth here on The Money Sprout. Tracking our net worth is a great tool that helps guide us towards financial independence (FI). Over the course of a month … we try and grow our assets. This includes our stock portfolio, […]
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My wife and I have a goal to use passive or side income streams to eventually cover 100% of our expenses. Within the next 10 years, we would like to have enough money coming in every month to cover all our expenses. Based on our currently spending, that is around $5,000 per month we plan […]
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At the start of this year … my wife and I set a goal to pay $0 in federal taxes in 2018. Up until a year ago, I didn’t even know this was possible … especially when my wife and I have around $100,000 of annual W-2 wages. But when I read how another blogger […]
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