Comments for The Fund Family https://trevorrumsey.com/thefundfamily Let the Fund Begin Wed, 04 Nov 2020 22:56:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Comment on How to Pick Winning Investments by Long Time No See – The Fund Family https://trevorrumsey.com/thefundfamily/how-to-pick-winning-investments/#comment-156 Wed, 04 Nov 2020 22:56:29 +0000 https://www.thefundfamily.com/?p=1767#comment-156 […] just checked the last time I posted to our blog and it’s been over 10 months.. Whoops. 2020 has been a wild year for dozens of reasons and things have seemed to have gotten crazy […]

]]> Comment on Why We Invest With Vanguard by How to Pick Winning Investments - The Fund Family https://trevorrumsey.com/thefundfamily/why-we-invest-with-vanguard/#comment-152 Fri, 17 Jan 2020 22:44:31 +0000 https://www.thefundfamily.com/?p=898#comment-152 […] I have always believed that I am the sole person who will take care of my money the best. I don’t …Paying someone else to take care of MY money makes no sense, especially if I can do it for free. Vanguard and Fidelity make that very easy. […]

]]> Comment on Why We Invest With Vanguard by 3 Year Work Anniversary - The Fund Family https://trevorrumsey.com/thefundfamily/why-we-invest-with-vanguard/#comment-151 Tue, 14 Jan 2020 22:52:45 +0000 https://www.thefundfamily.com/?p=898#comment-151 […] in November that same year. Once we bought our home, our focus shifted from high yield savings to index fund investing. We were already putting money away into my 401k every month, but we wanted to have more short-term […]

]]> Comment on Getting out of Debt – What we did to become Debt Free by Simple Path to Wealth Book Review - The Fund Family https://trevorrumsey.com/thefundfamily/getting-out-of-debt/#comment-150 Tue, 14 Jan 2020 22:42:16 +0000 https://www.thefundfamily.com/?p=255#comment-150 […] self-explanatory, but is always a good reminder. The main point that JL Collins makes is that debt will seriously inhibit your path to wealth and should be avoided as much as possible. “Carrying debt is as appealing as being covered with […]

]]> Comment on How we save 40% of our income every month by 3 Year Work Anniversary - The Fund Family https://trevorrumsey.com/thefundfamily/how-we-save-40-of-our-income-every-month/#comment-149 Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:43:09 +0000 https://www.thefundfamily.com/?p=915#comment-149 […] we were out of debt, we started saving aggressively. I wrote an article back in August 2018 on how we save 40% of our income every month. We have been pretty consistent at saving close to that every month, despite buying our first home […]

]]> Comment on Getting out of Debt – What we did to become Debt Free by 3 Year Work Anniversary - The Fund Family https://trevorrumsey.com/thefundfamily/getting-out-of-debt/#comment-148 Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:42:54 +0000 https://www.thefundfamily.com/?p=255#comment-148 […] 3 years ago, we were in a small amount of debt and had zero assets. Our debt came from two sources: a car loan and a student loan that amounted to about $10k. Because of this job, we were able to get out of debt and start putting money in our asset column. […]

]]> Comment on How we save 40% of our income every month by What We Want Our Kids to Know About Money - The Fund Family https://trevorrumsey.com/thefundfamily/how-we-save-40-of-our-income-every-month/#comment-147 Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:39:07 +0000 https://www.thefundfamily.com/?p=915#comment-147 […] of the best things we’ve done with our money, is made our saving automatic. Every month, money is deducted from our accounts and added to our “FU” money accounts and our […]

]]> Comment on Net Worth From -10k to 15k in 1 year. by 3 Year Work Anniversary - The Fund Family https://trevorrumsey.com/thefundfamily/net-worth-from-10k-to-15k-in-1-year/#comment-146 Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:38:46 +0000 https://www.thefundfamily.com/?p=20#comment-146 […] 3 years ago, we were in a small amount of debt and had zero assets. Our debt came from two sources: a car loan and a student loan that amounted to about $10k. Because of this job, we were able to get out of debt and start putting money in our asset column. […]

]]> Comment on How to Set a Budget (and What to Do Before You Start to Ensure Success) by What We Want Our Kids to Know About Money - The Fund Family https://trevorrumsey.com/thefundfamily/set-budget-start-ensure-success/#comment-145 Wed, 11 Dec 2019 16:12:16 +0000 https://www.thefundfamily.com/?p=214#comment-145 […] Budgeting is such a simple thing, but is so easy to overlook. It’s amazing to see the difference between the months when we budget and the months we don’t. Making and keeping to your budget will even make spending money the things you want a lot more fun. It takes away the guilt that can sometimes come with purchases because you know you have planned to spend that money. […]

]]> Comment on Getting out of Debt – What we did to become Debt Free by What We Want Our Kids to Know About Money - The Fund Family https://trevorrumsey.com/thefundfamily/getting-out-of-debt/#comment-144 Wed, 11 Dec 2019 16:11:52 +0000 https://www.thefundfamily.com/?p=255#comment-144 […] hope that this will be something that you guys (our kids) will get sick of hearing from us. Avoiding debt also helps teach important lessons about saving and interest. Our hope is to help them not be […]

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