Millionaire on the Prairie

Personal finance for singles looking to finance their dreams.

One of the things that I’ve learned over the years is that the principles for saving money are the same whether you’re coupled or a singleton.   Pay yourself first… Live below your means… Invest in the stock market for long-term growth… Always have an emergency fund… Buy the proper insurance… Use low-cost index funds […]

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I’m a visual leaner so when information can be presented in a picture, then I absorb it a lot faster. That’s why I was so damned impressed when I came across the following link on one of my travels through the Internet: Cash Flow Diagrams. In all honesty, this is one of the best links I have […]

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One of my life’s goals is to build a nice, solid flow of passive income without getting a second job. The way I decided to do this was by building an investment portfolio using a dividend-paying exchange traded fund (ETF). I think of the individual units in my ETF as Little Money Soldiers whose sole […]

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This most excellent advice came to me from a highly trusted source – my mother. While we were on our most recent vacation together, I asked her what she believed was the most important lesson to learn about money. In four words, she summed up the cornerstone of every personal finance blog I’ve ever come […]

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Based on my own experience and decades of observation, I am convinced without a shadow of a doubt that priorities guide how we spend money. To paraphrase Paula Pant at www.affordanything.com, every spending decision you make is based on priorities because choosing to spend on one thing means that you’re not spending on something else. […]

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