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I love teaching people how to handle their money and I've built a brand on that skill.

Michelle Singletary

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Michelle Singletary
Age: 54
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Financial Planner
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When you give people who are being financially responsible money, you are enabling them to continue a bad habit. So you are actually helping by saying, Love you but no.
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You still need to save but being debt-free in retirement is and should be a goal.
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You are rich if you have enough to meet your most basic needs. You are rich if you have access to clean water, food, shelter, love, a roof over your head.You have to count your blessings to see that you are richer than you think.
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We have to protect ourselves by doing our own homework.
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If you'll have enough saved and nobody has to take on debt and you want to retire, shoot go for it.
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My husband and I are pretty good at leaving money alone until we need it for what we've saved it for.
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If we don't want the companies to cheat on us, we shouldn't be cheating on them.
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We all fall - even me.
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Remember life insurance is intended as income replacement to help dependents and or/spouse pay for things that your income would have covered. When you get to the point that you're dependents (Your kids mostly) aren't dependent on your income, you could reduce the amount of life insurance you are carrying.
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I've decided to keep working until my last kid is thu college.
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Priorities lead to prosperity.
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My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.
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I've found that when you can quickly knock out debt you get motivated because you see progress. Then you attack the other debt so fast that even if it's at a higher interest rate, you don't end up paying much more because you've gotten rid of it.
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I use my financial values to set my limitations. I have three children I want to put through college debt free. So that means I can't spend wildly or with disregard.
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The rich are depressed because they realize their money can't buy them out of their issues.
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The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.
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Having a separate fund for the things in life that happen, helps keep the emergency fund in tact in case you lose your job or income.
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I think you can save and spend to live for however long you live. You just have to be flexible if things don't go as plan.
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A foreclosure does not define you financially.
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Save what you can toward the emergency and life happens fund. But don't worry yourself sick at the slow growth. The point is it's growing even it's just one dollar at at time.
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