“Geraldine”, a sassy lady portrayed by the late Flip Wilson, answered her husband thusly when he demanded an explanation for yet another new dress: “The Devil made me do it! I was walking down the street minding my own business when he snuck up behind me and pushed me into that dress store. He MADE […]
Deciding Whom to Help: The Burden/Load Principle
“But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth”. 1 Jn 3:17-18 These verses tell us that if God’s love abides in […]
Why Joe and Jan Do Not Have Long Term Care Insurance
In spite of what the title seems to infer, this post is not about the pros and cons of Long Term Care Insurance (LTCI); it is simply a post about Joe and Jan … and why they don’t have Long Term Care Insurance. Some background The year before I turned 60, I started researching Long […]
How Minimum Credit Card Payments Will Keep You in Debt Forever
Did you know that making your minimum credit card payment every month will take you as much as four times longer to get rid of debt than making a fixed payment? I recently ran across a nifty calculator at Bankrate.com that I recommend looking at. When I plugged in $5,000 debt at 12% interest with […]
What is “Strategic Default” and Should You Consider It?
Strategic Default, according to Wikipedia, is “the decision by a borrower to stop making payments (i.e. default) on a debt despite having the financial ability to make the payments.” This practice is particularly associated with residential and commercial mortgages in which, because of a substantial drop in the value of the real estate, the property […]
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