Money Matters
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Always lurking...
I lurk here, a LOT.
Pretty much I am just always envious about all the knowledge going on in here. Most of the time, I am flat out confused.
Me? I am a 23 year old mother, step mother, and currently cooking a bun. I have always been horrible with money, and never learned decent money skills from my mother.
My question is, where is a good place to learn about 401k, IRA..etc.
Dh and I are currently creeping up on 2.5 years of marriage, and have been working SO hard to pay off the HUGE amount of debt we both married with. Its been brought down drastically, with only student loans and one credit card left.
I just need to know more. Now that half our measly income is not going towards debt, I want it to go to something meaningful.
Pretty much I am just always envious about all the knowledge going on in here. Most of the time, I am flat out confused.
Me? I am a 23 year old mother, step mother, and currently cooking a bun. I have always been horrible with money, and never learned decent money skills from my mother.
My question is, where is a good place to learn about 401k, IRA..etc.
Dh and I are currently creeping up on 2.5 years of marriage, and have been working SO hard to pay off the HUGE amount of debt we both married with. Its been brought down drastically, with only student loans and one credit card left.
I just need to know more. Now that half our measly income is not going towards debt, I want it to go to something meaningful.
Re: Always lurking...
I your employer offers a 401K plan, do your best to fund to the amount that the employer matches. (this is with pretax dollars and you will pay taxes on the money when you withdraw at retirement)
After that Fund your ROTH IRA (with after ta
Any of the ____ for Dummies books (black and yellow covers) are great, easy places to learn on these MM topics.
Retirement, investing, managing your money, personal finance...are all titles in the series of for Dummies books.</p
I agree with PPs, but wanted to add that you should make sure you have your e-fund completely funded as well (you didn't mention).
The library always has a ton of helpful books (and you can use the money you save to add to your retirement!
Me: 29 DH: 32
HSG all clear!! CD3 b/w normal. SA: good count, high morph
Dec 2012: Clomid+ TI = BFN
Jan 2013: natural cycle =BFN
Feb 2013: natural cycle =BFN
Mar 2013: Clomid+ Trigger + TI + progest =BFN
Apr 2013: Clomid+ Trigger + IUI #1 + progest = BFN
May 2013: Clomid+ Trigger + IUI #2 + progest = BFN
Just because I don't think someone else will say it, Wikipedia. I often find myself there to remind myself of some of the details. You can also look through the sources at the bottom of the article to find where they got their information from.
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