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How Can We Save Money for the Future?
7 simple tricks that always work that almost nobody uses Teamwork makes the dreamwork, and great teammates have strong relationships. ...


What Couples Need to Know About Investing for Retirement
Original post: 5/26/23; Updated post: 8/30/24 Table of contents What is the difference between financial independence and retirement? ...


Tiller: The New Savings Goal Tracker for Google Sheets and Excel
Tiller is a personal finance tool that automatically imports your daily financial data into Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, allowing...


What the Hell Effect: How to Stop it From Derailing Financial Goals in Marriage
Many of us set ambitious financial goals with the best intentions. You know the drill – budgeting, saving, investing – and then you sway....


Comparing Investment Strategies with Your Spouse or Partner: Part 2
As shared in part one of this two part series, Many marriages include one spouse who understands the basics of investing and the other...


Comparing Investment Strategies with Your Spouse or Partner: Part 1
Many marriages include one spouse who understands the basics of investing and the other who has no idea what is happening. If this sounds...


FIRE Movement Tips for Couples
Post Contents FIRE Movement Meaning FIRE Movement Tips: 5 Key Ideas FIRE Movement vs. FI Movement When One Spouse Wants FI, and the Other...


Will Crypto Crash?
Cryptocurrency is a polarizing investment topic in the financial world. Cryptocurrencies have experienced rapid rises and falls....


How Can We Save Money Together?
Saving money is not always easy. As you can imagine, we are frequently asked by couples how they can save money together. Here are three...


Podcast Episode: How Spouses Can Use Retirement Savings to Reduce Their Taxes
Each week, Dr. Bruce Ross, Christian Sherrill, and Brian Page host national experts who share winning ideas to manage money and the home...


Podcast Episode: How Married Couples Plan for Retirement
In this episode of the Modern Husbands Podcast, we discuss how the common challenges couples encounter when planning for retirement...


Comparing Investor Fees: How they are holes in your retirement savings bucket
An investor fee is much like a hole in the bucket; the greater the fee, the bigger the hole in your retirement savings bucket. The...


The Spousal IRA
Most working Americans can consider two types of IRAs: a traditional IRA and a Roth IRA. Both can be a great way to build up...


The Simple Path to Wealth
We were honored to host JL Collins, the godfather of the FIRE movement, on the Modern Husbands Podcast. The episode is embedded at the...


How to Save Money and Invest Together
How to Budget When Your Spouse Won't: Part 3 of our 10 part budgeting series Table of Contents How to save money as a couple Where to...


Maximizing Your Savings with Raisin: A Financial Game-Changer
Table of Contents Why Raisin is the Platform to Find Your Savings Account: By The Numbers What is Raisin? Why our Family Uses Raisin...


How to pay the bills when your pay changes monthly
Updated post: 9/5/23 Original post: 2/10/23 Many of our parents taught us to save for a rainy day, using examples such as unanticipated...


Why ChatGPT is a Terrible Place for Investment Advice
Updated post: 9/5/23 Original post: 2/18/23 The positive possibilities of how Chat GPT could change the world overwhelmed me the first...
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