Runner’s Need a Larger Retirement Fund

All you runners out there better be thinking twice about how much you are putting into your retirement accounts.  According to some new research results, you are going to live longer than non runners.

A study published on Monday shows middle-aged members of a runner’s club were half as likely to die over a 20-year period [...]

Friday Link Love

It has been a quiet week over at the MMJ household.  We are prepping some rooms for a new paint job.  This is going to take quite some time as there is a lot of “junk” to move around or get rid of.  I expect several weekends of painting.  We have also been throwing out [...]

Budgeting for a Dreamhouse

Today I did some more number crunching in my budget spreadsheet. The picture looks rosier than before, but depends on some important variables. I will outline them here as well as show the breakdown in our monthly budget. It is interesting to look at how, when you shift some variables here and there, you [...]

Saving up for That Dreamhouse

Yesterday, I wrote about my wife’s and my desire to settle into a bigger house. We figured that the new house would be about $200,000 more than our current abode. This is no small change for us, but we feel that we need to make the jump somehow. Our current family situation [...]

Rethinking our Current Housing

Mrs MMJ and I have been think a lot about getting a bigger house. We currently live in a 3 bed, 1 bath, 2 story house that we purchased 7 years ago. We did a refinance 5 years ago that reduced our payments quite a bit, but earlier this year we took out [...]

Friday Link Love

Ahhh.  The en of another week and month.  While I did not keep track of July expense, I look forward to staying on target for August.  Lets hope we can stay out of the hospital.
Anyway, there were a great bunch of articles this week that showed up in my reader.

Jonathan at MyMoneyBlog discusses Umbrella policies [...]