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Month: September 2021

Spend For Today or Save For Tomorrow

Spend For Today or Save For Tomorrow

Last week I logged onto Vanguard and tinkered with my investments. I didn’t sell or buy anything–nothing that I would call bad investing practice–but I did reduce the amount of money being shoveled into my beloved VTSAX each week by half. This reduction in after-tax cash going into the markets wasn’t driven by any emotion, though I did have an emotional wave of guilt wash over me when clicking the edit button on my auto-investments. It’s always the same internal…

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Deadlines

Deadlines

Even now as I type this on a Friday afternoon, when I should be enjoying the start of the long Labor Day weekend, I feel the weight of one of my work deadlines calling out to me from next week. I can’t relax knowing the deadline is out there, already joining forces with my self-imposed home project deadlines and parenting responsibility deadlines. As soon as one deadline is met, another reveals itself. So that a never-ending to-do list constantly fills…

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