Dear Greg,
It has been a few months since our last newsletter, so we want to start out the summer by bringing you a couple of our most popular articles that have been posted at our blog, Managing Money God's Way.
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How much does cable TV really cost?
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 I have often recommended that people give up their cable TV in an
effort to decrease their monthly expenses and help pay down their debt.
The usual response is "No way!". I can completely understand why they
feel this way. Watching television has almost replaced baseball and the
national pastime. Now with HD television, large screen plasma panel and
more channels than anyone can possibly watch in a lifetime, it is very
easy to understand why so many people feel like they couldn't live
without it.
Our journey to giving up cable wasn't really a calculated idea. In
1991 my wife and I had moved out to the rural part of the county we
were living in. We purchased a wooded lot and built our house. We were
so far away from 'civilization' that we did not have cable access, so
we did the next best thing. We called the satellite guy. In 1991, the
satellite dishes were still as big as your car, so we couldn't just
mount one on the side of our house. The day the satellite guy came, he
started his sales pitch, and we told him we didn't need the sales
pitch, we needed the dish.
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I want my 401(k) back!
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 I think everyone will agree that 2008 was not a good year for the stock market, retirement accounts (including 401k's and IRA's)
or just about anything else where savings or investing was concerned.
The Dow Jones lost more than 33% over the last 12 months and that
number has been the focus of a lot of news articles including blog
posts. Although I agree that having the market go up makes me feel a
lot better than watching it fall almost uncontrollably, there is
something that we can focus on that will make us feel better about the
state of the stock market.
We Will Survive
This first thing we need to remember is the United States is a very
resourceful country. We have weathered bad times in the past and we
have always prevailed. This time is no different. Given time, this Bear
Market will end and we will again see the return of the Bulls. Until then what should you do?
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