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This site will help teach you how to manage your finances more responsibly through lessons that I have learned and advice about how money integrates into a well balanced life. For many of us, managing money does not come easy. Money in our society is a taboo subject. People do not feel comfortable discussing it and this leads to confusion, resentment, and willful ignorance. These widespread attitudes make it easy to grow up with a distorted view of money and its meaning in our lives. I have made plenty of financial blunders and am sure to make more as time passes. However, this website is designed to share what I learn with you, in the hope that it will inspire you to make changes in how you view money and your relationship with it.

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Leasing a BMW 323i was the worst financial mistake that I have ever made. Terminating the lease was the best financial move I have ever made. I was fresh out of college working at my first job as a software consultant. It must be something about getting your first raise in life that makes you feel invincible. At least, that is how I attempt to rationalize the decision to lease a car that I couldn’t come close to affording. Well, that and girls, I suppose.

The car cost about $31,000, easily more than half of my salary at the time. I paid $3,750 down to make the lease payment $469 per month. It was a payment that I could afford. However, that is about as far as my thinking went for awhile.

I did enjoy driving the BMW while I had it. It was fast, it cornered well, and let’s face it, I was cool. I thought I was cool and maybe I was to certain people. I can’t remember exactly how it happened, but buyer’s remorse set in and I began to realize that for all the money I was spending, I owned nothing. I started cranking out spreadsheets to help me analyze the numbers. The numbers were not good.

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Posted: December 11th, 2006 under Automobiles, Debt.
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