Advanced Personal Finance

Welcome and thanks for reading.

Advanced Personal Finance is a blog dedicated to moving past the basics of personal finance. I’ll be touching on topics that are more…well… advanced. This won’t be so much of a teaching blog as a learning blog. I’ll be doing most of the learning, but I hope it will be of some value to you, too. People who have established a personal finance base of knowledge will hopefully find some good useful information here.

In this blog, I’ll be covering retirement saving, amateur tax planning, finance information, investing, and college saving. I won’t be focusing much on debt reduction, frugal living, or budgeting. Many sites do a much better job on those topics than I could and you can find them in the Blogroll.

Who I am and why I’m doing this

I’m a thirtysomething guy living with my wife and little girl (with one on the way) in the Mid-Atlantic area. I’ve been reading personal finance sites for a while now and thought I would add my take. When I went looking for personal finance information beyond the basics, I couldn’t find a lot. Thus this site was born.

My money-managing background is strictly amateur. So consider this the standard warning: I am not a financial professional. Please know that I will post the best information I can to help others as I help myself, but you should not substitute this blog (or any blog) for professional personal finance advice.

I graduated college over ten years ago with what is becoming the standard post-college debt situation. I had several maxed credit cards, student loans, and no money management skills whatsoever. Shortly after, I met my wife and she set me on the path to better financial discipline. She’d probably tell you now she created a monster. Within a few short years, we were out of debt and actually saving money. She sparked my interest in personal finance and I’ve been excited about it ever since.

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