Your Guide to Traditional and Roth IRAs

An Individual Retirement Account – IRA as it’s commonly referred to – is one of the most widely- used investment tools in America. You’ve likely heard the terms, “Roth,” and, “Traditional,” used to refer to IRAs as well – but what’s the difference?

Learning About Kid’s College Fund Planning

College fund planning. Every parent has wild dreams of hoping to make their child’s upbringing a little better than their own. It is natural to strive for this and is noble as well, as long as you are not sacrificing your own retirement, otherwise we are just trading one problem for another. Over the past week, I’ve been taking some time to go over some research about how much our family is going to need to send our 3 and a half year old and our 1 and a half year old to college when they hit 18. I thought […]

The Power Of Dividends & Time

The other day I decided to check in on one of my favorite things, my Phillip Morris (Altria) stock (MO). When I was younger, I used to think that I would just invest all my money into dividend producing stocks and I would be rich. But, because of dumb financial mistakes and bills, I ended up cashing out almost all of my investments. I did, however, leave myself one share of one stock just to see what it would do over time though. And that one stock ended up being Phillip Morris (MO). I have held one share of MO […]

May 2015 – $65,904 – Net Worth Update (-$510.00)

Alright, here goes! My first real Budget Report/Net Worth Update!What HappenedThis month was a pretty good month overall, but I think with how the paychecks fell at the end of the month, our stats were showing a little skewed. We will see next month anyways. We got a good chunk of money put away into savings this month getting us all that much closer to our Fully Funded Emergency Fund of 6 months of expenses! Can’t wait to get that done so that we can start investing, saving for kid’s college and paying off the mortgage!Net Worth – May 2015AssetsHome […]