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When is the last time you received a raise of $1,000 per month? For adults with young children, the high cost of daycare could be a $1,000-a-month opportunity in waiting. The cost of child care averages $14,500 a year for an infant, $12,280 a year for a 4-year-old. It's understandable if parents aren't piling money into that same child's 529 college savings plan quite yet.

However, when your child "graduates" from daycare, there's going to be some money freed up, say, $12,280 a year. A thousand bucks a month. Read more »

 

Before retirement begins, gather what you need. Put as much documentation as you can in one place, for you and those you love. It could be a password-protected online vault; it could be a file cabinet; it could be a file folder. Regardless of what it is, by centralizing the location of important papers you are saving yourself and your loved ones from disorganization and headaches in the future. Read more »

 

Will bond investors soon suffer major losses? In the last few years, Bill Gross, Jim Rogers and other pundits have warned of a bond bubble. While it has yet to occur – the broad bond market yielded an annualized 4.42% from 2010-2014 – the threat remains. Read more »

 

Social media and email accounts. Creative works, photos and keepsakes kept on home computers, the cloud or external storage drives. E-commerce accounts. Domain names. Bitcoin. These are all examples of digital assets. You will manage them closely as long as you live – but what will happen to them once you die? Read more »