After digging and pouring the footer for our house, it’s time to set our foundation. Our financial foundation needs to be solid, stable, and able to support the weight of our financial house. Three components of a solid financial foundation – Insurance At present, my wife and I have health insurance, term life insurance, disability insurance, automobile insurance, dental insurance,…
Category: Emergency Fund
Debt Reduction And The Emergency Fund
From a recent email from “Rick” – If you had to begin your debt reduction journey today, would you immediately begin to attack your debts or would you first take the time to build up my cash reserves? This is a great question, and one I’ve been asked several times. First, for the sake of this article, I’ll refer to…
The Emergency Fund To The Rescue!
This is a guest post by Paul Williams from Crackerjack Greenback.  You can visit his site and follow along his journey as he goes from being laid off to finding his next job. After reading, consider subscribing to Paul’s RSS Feed. A couple of days ago, I was laid off. Am I concerned?  Yes. Am I worried?  Only slightly. Am…