Big Decisions
A mortgage term that runs past the date you want to stop
Extending a loan to make the monthly payment work is the standard response to a stretched budget, and it quietly moves the…
Big Decisions
Moving, a career change, a career break — priced properly before committing.
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Big Decisions
Renovate or move, priced honestly
Both options are more expensive than the version in your head, and they fail in different ways, which is what should decide it.
Big Decisions
The qualification your employer pays for, and the strings attached
Sponsored study looks like free training, and the clawback clause turns it into a loan you repay by staying.
Big Decisions
The decision you are making because you are exhausted
Tiredness does not just make decisions harder; it changes which option looks correct, and the change is consistent enough to…
Big Decisions
Leaving the city because the time costs too much
Moving out is usually presented as a cost decision, and for most households the currency that actually changed hands is hours.
Big Decisions
Selling something you built, and the day after
The negotiation absorbs everything until it completes, and almost nobody plans the years that follow the money arriving.
Big Decisions
Guaranteeing someone else's borrowing
Agreeing to stand behind a loan feels like a formality until the day the lender stops chasing the borrower and starts chasing you.
Big Decisions
The year to make no big decisions at all
After a bereavement, a birth, a serious illness or a separation, the most valuable thing a household can often do is nothing…
Big Decisions
Two people, one decision, two appetites for risk
Households rarely disagree about goals; they disagree about how much uncertainty is tolerable on the way there, and that argument…