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etalian
Mar 20, 2006

balancedbias posted:


-Increase life insurance - this I'll admit we've both been huge slackers. Well, more specifically me, since I made 4x what my wife did this year. She pointed out "If you drop dead, I'd be fine in the immediate run, but the future would be reaaal sketchy" and she's right :smith:. As soon as we sit down and calculate the proper amount, I can definitely afford a bigger term policy.

Check your workplace benefits, companies offer greatly discounted life insurance as part of the benefits in addition to a standard no cost benefit.

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etalian
Mar 20, 2006

pig slut lisa posted:

Talked with my wife about this yesterday and she's totally on board. I was planning on just tracking our spending via online credit card statements, but she suggested keeping a tally on the fridge which is of course a much better idea.

For comparison I estimate our monthly home consumption purchases for 2014 at around $70-80 so this should represent a significant savings.

You can also try a website called Mint.com, it basically links all you investment, bank and credit accounts into a single place making it much easier to track your monthly spending/income flow.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

pig slut lisa posted:

I'm hooked up to Mint, but I rarely look at it. Given that we already save approximately 50% of our income, I don't feel that it provides a lot of value to us. Since I'm targeting this one specific expense, I think the fridge tally will be most effective for us.

It's still a handy for tracking yearly spending and income patterns.

On the downside it's stock account integration is pretty bad

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