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Personal Finance and Investing

3Hotdogs

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13. Yeah, if you're borrowing for "it," you can't afford it.

Reply to Tomconroy (Reply #12)

Mon Apr 26, 2021, 09:39 PM

Apr 2021

You can afford the monthly payments but you can't afford the product or service so don't buy it.

Yes, there are emergencies that could have been provided for before the emergency came to be.

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The best investment book I have ever read [View all] Tomconroy Apr 2021 OP

Living below your means in your 20s can be damn hard Shermann Apr 2021 #1

I think both authors Tomconroy Apr 2021 #5

Red and bookmarked underpants Apr 2021 #2

compound interest these days is about 0.00000000000000000000000001% lol nt msongs Apr 2021 #3

Only if you were in a savings account Tomconroy Apr 2021 #4

When I was living in Ohio there was a man in town multigraincracker Apr 2021 #6

Thanks CommonHumanity Apr 2021 #7

I do really care about this subject. Tomconroy Apr 2021 #11

Thank you for your interesting post XanaDUer2 Apr 2021 #8

To everyone who claims it is totally, 100% impossible to save anything, PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2021 #9

Your niece may not be entirely wrong --- depends on the interest on the loans she owes. 3Hotdogs Apr 2021 #10

If I remember correctly Tomconroy Apr 2021 #12

Yeah, if you're borrowing for "it," you can't afford it. 3Hotdogs Apr 2021 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author 3Hotdogs Apr 2021 #14