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The Greatest Freedom Money Buys Is Freedom From Thinking About Money

The other day my wife and I were driving when she broke a few minutes of silence to ask - “If you had limited water and were lost in the jungle, how would you ration it?” She loves asking me these types of questions because she knows I will struggle to find an answer longer than most.

I gave complex answers about how long the body can go without water and hypothesized about how the humidity levels in the jungle might affect hydration. After multiple attempts, I gave up... 

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I Got An Email From Experian - Equifax Settlement Follow Up

Back in 2019, I wrote on this blog about your options for the Equifax breach if you were one of the millions of people who had their personal information stolen.

Well, another two years went by before they finally sorted out the credit monitoring for all those that chose it. To be perfectly honest, I had forgotten about it. But then I got an email last week that read “Equifax Data Breach Settlement (Credit Monitoring Instructions and Activation Code)…”

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