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It's not the student loans that are the problem, it's spending too much on the wedding. A wedding is one day, and then it's over. All this nonsense about needing to have a wedding wher… (View Post)

vlagrl, you generally want to use gross income as the benchmark. If your mom is approaching retirement, she should be mostly out of stocks. At her age she really wants to be looking for a 5-7%-ish (o… (View Post)

Honestly the idea of a future recession doesn't really bother me. 2008 was definitely bad, but we've recovered all that (and plenty more) since then. People forget about the recessions of t… (View Post)

Hey, "know thyself" and all that :) I blame TK - I got so much flak on the boards over there in the early days because I didn't provide every minute detail they needed to "fully … (View Post)

All, I just discovered a new thing with Amazon called Amazon Smile. If you shop through smile.amazon.com (which looks virtually identical to the regular Amazon site), then Amazon will donate 0.5% of … (View Post)