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A DINK No More

November 23, 2011

(Guest Post by Eveline Bernices) Good afternoon to all of my DINK friends. As some of you might have heard, we have lost several members of our special little society over the past couple of weeks. According to sources like the New York Times, the population of Earth has reached over 7 billion people. While [...]

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DINKS Discrimination!

October 25, 2011

Good Morning DINKS.  Today we are discussing our DINK lifestyle.  Over this past summer I was interviewed by an NYU student named Lorena who was researching the DINK lifestyle.  She wrote an interesting article from the DINK point of view that included interviews with yours truly from DINKS Finance, as well as a couple from [...]

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Friday Roundup: Giving Young People a Financial Education

July 1, 2011

Happy Friday DINKS! Today we are discussing our pre DINK lives. Before we were DINKS we were young adults, and before that we were teenagers.  What was your financial education as a teenager? I grew up in a family that had everything because our parents grew up with without any things. I wouldn’t say that [...]

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I Quit… No Wait I’m Pregnant!

June 28, 2011

There is a new trend among young women who are unhappy at their jobs to get pregnant and go on maternity leave, rather than quit their job or transfer out of their current position.  Yesterday I was talking with my friend and co-worker who is extremely unhappy at our bank branch.  She has been working [...]

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People With Kids Are Broke!?!

April 4, 2011

This past week my boss told me that he is about to have another child.  After this child is born he will have 3 children, all under the age of 6. I couldn’t help but think that his life is my biggest nightmare. I am only 2 years younger than him and I can’t imagine [...]

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Being a DINK: Maybe I am just a Coward!

December 27, 2010

I know that we have discussed this before but after the last post where we discussed the cost of having children I started to think…Is my choice to not have children a smart financial decision, a selfish choice, or am I just flat out being a total commitment coward? With the recent break up of [...]

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Communication or Generation Gap?

August 2, 2010

Last week while I was on vacation with my Dad I realized that his life is not as involved online as mine is.  My father doesn’t use online banking; whereas I check my bank accounts every morning before I take my shower. My father does use email, but he doesn’t read or contribute to online [...]

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DINKS: Smart or Selfish?

June 23, 2010

I am 29 years old and I am a DINK.  I am in a dual income no kids relationship.  I enjoy working and I enjoy spending my money on clothes, trips, and (more recently) my car.  However, as I get closer to becoming 30 years old (in October) I am starting to ask myself…Do I [...]

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