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Believe It or Not, Lower Costs for 2023 Are Possible

Between inflation and increasing expectations, it is getting increasingly expensive to live. 2022 has brought a huge shock to many with inflation and gas prices. It’s hard to make ends meet when you can’t even find the ends! However, I often hear people comment that they can’t do any better, can’t live on less, and […]

The Curse of Materialism

We live in a very materialistic world, nation, state and area. When you meet someone, one of the early questions asked is what the person does or did for a living. As soon as the answers are given, labels are attached and those labels include net worth. I am a retired attorney, so automatically I […]

What the Love of Money Means

John Piper in his book Money, Sex & Power makes an interesting observation. He asks, “Have you ever pondered the possibility that the first and the last Commandments are virtually the same, and function as kind of an enclosure, or bracketing, that makes the other eight commandments in the middle possible?” I had never thought […]

Start Smart Investing – How to Get Into the Market

The stock market is hard to figure out. The best advice I have ever heard is “buy low and sell high.” The lack of practical and useful details in the saying makes it hard to apply. My actual personal experience has all too often been closer to “Buy high and sell low.” If you put […]

How to Ruin Your Retirement Plans

A Retirement Guide for Millennials and More It’s crazy to start thinking about retirement in your twenties and thirties, isn’t it? Actually, it’s crazy not to start thinking and planning for retirement then! Yes, the world will be very different in thirty or forty years. Forget the world; American society will be very different in […]

Roadblocks to Retirement

If you ask enough seniors what they regret about their finances before retirement, you will get hundreds of different answers. Wells Fargo Asset Management did just that in 2015. They got a wide variety of answers but there was one answer that stood out. It was the leading regret by an overwhelming margin. There also […]

Why College Students Should Prioritize Scholarships Over Other Financial Aid

As the 2018-2019 school year comes to a close, many high school seniors are looking ahead to their college years. For most students and parents, this means spending some serious time figuring out how to pay college tuition costs. A College Board survey found that the average tuition costs have tripled at both public and […]

What Can I Do?

During the Coronavirus pandemic, that is a question I have heard from a number of people. “I am only one person, what can I do?” But you aren’t just one person, you are one of many asking the same question. There is strength in numbers – a lot of strength! Here are a few ideas […]

Marriage and Money

A Dangerous Combination While there are many reasons why marriages fail, disagreements over money are either the number one “cause,” or those disagreements make other problems worse. Often disagreements over money make reconciliation much harder. Money is not evil, but the love of money truly is the root of many kinds of evil, 1 Timothy […]

Where Does Your Money Go?

Here’s a great question for you. When you approach the end of the month and you have already reached the end of your money, ask, “where did it go?” Answering that question accurately is the key to making progress against the dilemma of having to decide which creditors get the last of the money and […]

Starting Financially Strong

Lessons for engaged couples and newlyweds Marriage, the joining together of two different lives (not to mention blended families where there are many different lives to join together), is difficult. The one area where more marriages are attacked and where they fail most often is in personal finances. Money, disputes over money and the uses […]

Don’t Just Settle for Good

There are likely very few Christian articles that will start with a quote from, of all people, Hunter Thompson. For those not familiar with him, Hunter S. Thompson (1937 – 2005), was an author and journalist who hated authority and made many outrageous statements like, “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to […]

Are You Visibly Committed to God?

“I dare you!” Those are challenging words coming from almost anyone. Now imagine those words came from God Himself. Really! Would God do that? Would God dare anyone to do something? He did! The book of Malachi is a series of questions and challenges by God directed at His people. One of those questions and […]

Planning for an Uncertain Future

Reading tea leaves has an official name! I was surprised to find that the idea of fortune-telling, or telling a person’s future, from patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds or even wine sediments has an official, scientific-sounding name, tesseography (or tasseomancy or tasseology). Somehow, I am skeptical that the alignment of tea leaves in the […]

The Problem With Worrying About Money

“Don’t worry. Be happy! That is easier said than done by far, especially looking at our economy. 2018 was not a kind year for those watching the U.S. economy and the stock market. In 2019, 2020 and even 2021 the market has been down due to the pandemic but then came roaring back, and was […]

Budget Breakers

Doing a budget is not fun. There is nothing pleasurable about going back through old financial records looking for charges, checks, payments and deposits so that the budget can reflect reality and be meaningful. But there are multiple benefits to doing a budget. In my case, I immediately spotted an odd feature of my monthly […]

The Disaster of Debt – Stop Making Financial Excuses

One of the most common problems with digging out from under debt is procrastination. There are a number of ways we try to mentally justify our procrastination, no matter how wrong they are. They include: My Debt Is Too Big To Manage, So Why Try? One basic rule for life is that when you find […]

Save More – 10% Isn’t Enough

That is an outrageous title! Save more than 10% of your income? Most Americans don’t save at all, much less save 10% or save more than that. Why would anyone say save more than 10%? That’s a fair question. The Bible, math and the realities of life answer that question and all agree. The Bible […]

Debt Consolidation? Maybe and Maybe Not

It is amazing! The advertisements come through like a gift from somewhere. It sounds too good to be true. And that may be the problem, it may not work and it may not be true, or at least not entirely true. I am writing about debt consolidation, a debt release “product” that is highly touted […]

Getting Out of Debt

One critically important part of a close walk with God is giving back to Him.  It is a command and a calling to give to God who has given so much for us.  John 3:16.  But it is hard to give when the past due notices arrive and the phone rings with the friendly call […]

Americans in Debt

Americans are drowning in debt! And here in the Sunshine State, Floridians have gone down as fast if not faster than most. The recession starting in 2008 drove Americans and Floridians farther in debt than ever before and the result was a flood of bankruptcies and foreclosures that ruined lives, destroyed a housing boom and […]

It’s Time to Start Saving

We live in the land of opportunity! Many come to this country thinking it is not only possible but likely that they can find financial security and perhaps even wealth in this land of opportunity. But every opportunity also has its risks and current events demonstrate that remarkably well. In the 1960s people saved more […]

Ideas for Living Better Through Stewardship

The Idlewild Foundation is committed to the Biblical concept of financial stewardship. Stewardship is about much more than just giving, it is all about living better. The wise handling of your money is an essential aspect of reducing stress in your life, having a solid financial plan, and securing your financial future. When your eyes […]

Helpful Health Coverage Sites

The Idlewild Foundation makes no recommendation of any particular health insurance coverage or plan, and does not endorse any of these plans. Health insurance coverage is very personal and needs are unique to each individual and family and their particular circumstances. The market is impossible to address in a single article and it is unwise to rely upon one website […]

7 Steps for Financial Progress

Start saving $1 a week — and keep adding more money each week Start on January 1 and put it in an envelope (and do not remove it). Gain a little traction by adding another dollar to the envelope “bank” each week. In early February, you’re saving $5 that week. By the last week of […]

Expanding Your Circle of Giving

How to set up a Giving Circle One of the recent trends in giving is the rise of “Giving Circles” – individuals who come together to pool their assets to make a difference with their giving. Setting up a Giving Circle is easy, and you may be surprised how meaningful it is to give among […]

Save, Don’t Store

One in ten Americans rent a storage unit. One estimate from the industry says that Americans spend about $32 billion a year on storage units. That may make sense for some as they are temporarily storing family treasures during or after a move. But many are throwing their hard-earned money into storing what should be […]

Planning Your Future Financial And …

Ask almost anyone what their financial goals are and you will get a short list of responses which will virtually always include making enough money to retire early – and securely. Believe it or not, that is possible, although it will take effort, planning and sacrifice. And that is a very reasonable and desirable financial […]

8 Financial Moves to Make in Your 20s

Youth is a great time.  You have health, you have mobility.  You have freedom.  And you have a great future ahead.  It is a great time to be carefree.  Wrong! – at least as to the last.  Youth is by far the best time to start planning for a long future.  The choices you make […]

Your Financial Future By The Decade

Your future actually just started. Are you on board? Even if the answer is “yes,” there could be a problem. If you don’t know where you need to go or where you should aim, how can you possibly know what you need to do to get there? It makes some sense to give yourself some […]

For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:11

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