When I moved into my last house, we went through the inspection and one of the items I inquired about was the washer and dryer. They were stamped with a manufacture date of 1984 – which means they were older than I was. The inspector assured me that ‘they don’t make them like they used to’ and that those appliances would last a lifetime if maintained correctly. Hard to believe, but when we moved out 7 years later, those appliances still worked just as well as they day we moved in. And I didn’t have to do a thing to them.

By Thomas Morrone, CFP®, CPA I started saving money as soon as I knew what money was. I would do my chores around the house for $.25 per week. No job was out of the question, from raking leaves to shoveling driveways, whatever, as long as it paid. Pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters all ended up in my bank which was no more than an empty Maxwell House coffee can that I kept hidden in the...

Every golfer dreams of the same moment. Whether your version occurs at the 12th at Augusta, the 7th at Pebble Beach, the 17th at TPC Sawgrass or the 16th at TPC Scottsdale, the rest of the story is inevitably the same.