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Rolled Over Into a Vanguard IRA

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Photo Credit: Strevo Ok, so we finally mailed the paperwork to rollover my husband’s 401(k) into a Vanguard Roth IRA. The actual process took around total of 30 minutes. Sending out the paperwork? Over 2 weeks. Here’s how we did it: Organized [...]

July 2008: Progress Update

Photo Credit: ivanx Half the year has past I feel like I want to stray off my financial course. Being semi-responsible for a ‘long’ time is making want to take the money I sock away and just spend it. Has anybody else felt this way? Let me first review my goals for this year: Income: The goal is [...]

Rolling Over 401(k)s

Photo Credit: Zzzack We’re doing alright preparing for this move. I’m dead tired, but once this is done, I’ll be able to rest easy. Something that I’m keeping in the back of mind for now is the plan for our retirement funds. We both have 401(k)s with our employers. My 401(k) is considerably less than [...]

I enrolled in my company’s 401(k)

  Photo Credit: David Dennis I’m excited! My one year anniversary was a bit more than month ago, so I can enroll in my company’s 401(k) program. I’ve been bugging Human Resources to try and get my benefits. I wasn’t pushing for the health insurance since my husband’s plan is cheaper and has better coverage. When we did our [...]

Retirement in Your 20s

Retirement is usually one of the furthest things on the minds of college students and new graduates. You got bills to pay, including possibly students and car loans. You might think that you’ll pay down your debts first, buy the house, and then save for retirement. After all, you should be making a lot more [...]