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Best Holiday Buys to Learn About Money & Investing

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Money, investing, personal finance and estate planning weren’t taught in school when I was growing up – unless of course you majored in a finance area in college. If you are in my situation (some schools still don’t teach kids about money!), there are plenty of self help options out there. Check your local community education programs to see if there are inexpensive classes offered by financial experts in your area, look for online classes or lean on your financial adviser or broker for information.

Books and games are also great sources of information about money and investing. Here are a few of the ones I have read over the years. Perhaps they would make a good gift for someone on your holiday list, or perhaps even for yourself! Continue reading →

Best Holiday Buys for Financial Motivation

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It’s that wonderful time of year again and I’m trying something new this year that I hope will help you with your gift shopping needs.

Family Money Values blog and site will both publish frequent ‘best buy’ type articles intended to share with you products we like and use that will move your family use your values to keep your family’s wealth and well being for generations to come.

Today, I explore books that motivate the reader to become wealthy.  As with most things in life, motivation must precede obtaining the knowledge, skill and persistence to accumulate wealth.  Here are several books to inspire that special person on your holiday list. Continue reading →

Best Holiday Buys to Teach Kids About Money

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It’s that wonderful time of year again and as I said in my last couple of posts, I’m trying something new this year that I hope will help you with your gift shopping needs.

Family Money Values blog and site will both publish frequent ‘best buy’ type articles intended to share with you products we like and use that will help your family to use your values to keep your family’s wealth and well being for generations to come.

If you read my blog, you know I hold Grandma Rie’s Money Camp each year for my two grandchildren. As a result of planning for that each year, I have been on a search for ways to teach young children personal finance concepts. Here is what I have found so far and what may help you with your kids and grandkids too. I have used these products, or some version of them and they have worked well with my now 4 and 8 year old grandchildren.

They make nice holiday presents that you can use with them all year long. Continue reading →

Best Holiday Buys for Seeing How the Other Half Lives

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It’s that wonderful time of year again and as I said in my last post, I’m trying something new this year that I hope will help you with your gift shopping needs.

Family Money Values blog and site will both publish frequent ‘best buy’ type articles intended to share with you products we like and use that will help your family to use your values to keep your family’s wealth and well being for generations to come.

I don’t know about you, but I love to see how the really rich folks live. I wonder about the products they use, the mansions they inhabit, the schools and neighborhoods they frequent and the things they value. I suspect that they have problems similar or maybe even more profound that the rest of us. Anyway, I like to scope out how the other half lives, as my Mom used to say. Here are a few of the ways I have done that in the past. Continue reading →

Best Holiday Buys for Long Term Family Wealth Preservation

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It’s that wonderful time of year again and I’m trying something new this year that I hope will help you with your gift shopping needs.

Family Money Values blog and site will both publish frequent ‘best buy’ type articles intended to share with you products we like and use.  Ones that we hope will move your family use your values to keep your family’s wealth and well being for generations to come as well as make your life easier.

This post will share some of my favorite books on growing your family’s desire to accumulate wealth across generations. If no one in the family wants to look forward a generation or two, you may as well spend all that hard earned money on yourself or your favorite charity! Continue reading →