Back at the end of March my wife and I purchased a new 2014 Toyota Sienna LE. I found it hard to get good benchmark prices online so wanted to share our cost breakdown. We purchased a 2014 Toyota Sienna...
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My wife and I are actively working on buying a replacement car. My 1998 Nissan Sentra is currently having some problems (significant oil leak) and I've decided that I don't want to continue to invest in the car since we...
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For those that live in North Carolina like myself, there was a fairly quiet change pass by the NC general assembly this year that removes the state tax deductions for NC529 contributions effective January 1, 2014. For a married couple...
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I took a couple days off this week just to catch my breadth and spend a little time with the family. Today I took my 3yr old daughter to the local science museum and had a lovely day enjoying the...
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Each year I am learning a bit more about the costs for raising a child. It is clear my initial thoughts on the expenses of raising a child were naively simple when we had our first child. I wanted to...
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We are 2.5 years into raising our first child. Life has slowly gotten a bit easier as our daughter is now able to do some very basic tasks herself. At first I tried to keep careful watch over our expenses...
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We celebrated baby 2million's first birthday this weekend with the typically 1st birthday party fanfare. My wife worked long and hard for this big event, well above what I had expected when we discussed the get together with family and...
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When we sit down and think about it, our transition to parenthood has really had a snowball affect on our finances. While before our child I would have easily recognized the expenses of a hospital birth, diapers, formula etc, with...
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Our little girl is already 6 weeks old and before you know it I will probably be talking about her heading to college. Time is flying and I feel like now is the best time to get the game plan...
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Baby 2Million finally arrived last week and both mother and baby are doing well!! Suddenly we are a family. Everything has been a blur since her arrival as we are adjusting to family life and getting used to not sleeping...
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My wife and I recently made another big acquisition - we purchased a changing table and a crib in preparation for our upcoming arrival. We started our furniture purchase by looking at several major retailers like Babies R Us,...
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