Helping my unemployed father Looking for advice on how to plan for needing to help support my dad. My dad (60) was in a work related accident in 2019. He has since been living off of the settlement. He has a small amount left from the settlement (refuses to tell me exactly how much) but occasionally drives for Uber. He has no retirement due to very poor financial planning….

Any ideas for small earnings but helping people ? Any ideas for how I can help people with my time, not money, to earn just a little

Helping a retiree with debt… Help! I’m very responsible with finances but I find myself helping and elderly friend who was not. HELOC: 20k Credit Card Debt: 20k Misc Debt: 25k He’s now in a retirement home spending down so he can qualify for medicaid because he does not have any other income streams. What is the best strategy to consolidate/pay for all these debts? Thanks in ad…

Helping Children Reach Their Potential It’s noted that out of hundreds of kids anticipated to become top-achievers, very few achieve anything. I don’t think this is new. I do think it deserves to be looked at. I acknowledge this is not my field. Bringing up things others won’t, is my field. This really seems worth thinking about. I’ve heard about Source

helping my immigrant parents as a first gen Hello I’m looking for some financial help regarding my parents. I’m a 21 year old student and am trying my best to become financially literate this year to help myself and my family. There is so much information and so much to learn, there are also many things I do not understand very well. Both of my parents are cuban immigrants and have little…

Is trying to get my parent’s mortgage paid really helping? We’re in Canada. I’m 26, confused about the mortgage and debt, and wondering if my contributions are truly helpful or not. Will a bank force a debtor to remortgage their home? My parents (F50 and M55) have about $130,000 in debt, and that’s about what the house is worth. I stopped renting and moved home when my parents separated, hoping this wou…

Helping a sibling Save long term I have a sibling who I live with. He had some mental health problems that he was been able to recover from a great deal, He has a job. The issue is he is never going to be 100% and will need someone to make sure he is on the right track. Mostly with paying bills and impulse spend. I was able to get him to get a savings account, but he drains it …

Lpt for helping to heat your home more efficiently. it’s been well covered in the comments now that this isn’t wise so you can stop commenting the same thing everyone else is that it’ll stress the system. I’m aware now. Magnets are off. Go on about your day. I have a house heated by an oil burning furnace. I have several rooms that go unused in my house and it always annoyed me even with the vent…

Helping my dad with his 401k accounts My dad is a retired radiologist who, unfortunately, has progressively worsening dementia. I’m trying to help him with his finances before his memory deteriorates more. He has a 401k with 10 separate accounts through the private physician group he was with before he retired. I’m not entirely sure why, but all of these accounts have a trustee, th…

LPT Requst: Helping Elders with Tech How are you helping your parents and grandparents manage their passwords? It’s becoming a huge problem for many older people in my life, books full of messy scribbles, loose scraps of paper with passwords, and most of them don’t even work when you try them. They are even saving incorrect passwords through Google password manager. Going digital …

Helping my nephews learn how to save I’m looking into some “fun” but easy ways to help my nephews manage money (mainly save) while we don’t live together. I’m not from US. My nephews (10, 12 yo) and I live in different countries. I see them about once a year. When I visit, I give them equivalent of $60 each as pocket money, which is customary in my culture. My 12 yo nephew is a “sp…

Helping father with inheritance after mom’s death Hi, my mom passed 2 days ago. She was the primary breadwinner and financial manager. My dad doesn’t even know where to pay the mortgage, so I’m helping compile and organize everything for him. Luckily, my mom had a $1.25M life insurance policy. My dad is 60. He wants to take the rest of the year off work, but doesn’t know what he wants to do nex…

Helping a parent financially My mother is turning 60 this year. She has made so many sacrifices for my brother and I in her life, which included financial support. I’m financially stable now. My brother still needs help at times. I know my mom hasn’t been able to save much at all for retirement. She told me she has about 20k in her current retirement account. (I’m not sure …

Advice: Tips for Helping a Friend A close friend of mine has asked me to help them get started with investing for retirement. Should I start with helping them with a budget? Is that too personal? Should I just give show them different ways to invest for the future and retirement specifically? Where should I start? Background: I’m in my 20s. Have never had debt. Make a decent …

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Need advice on helping parent financially Recent graduate 2020 and now finally making a good amount of money 2023 just bought a house and plan to progress and propose soon Since 2017 I been assisting my mother with her rent 1400 a month I haven’t lived in the apartment since 2021 Now with planning for proposal and wedding soon and making sure I’m Investing I realize 1400 is a big chu…

Helping Elderly Parents – Things to think about? Ways to cope? Me: Early 40s. Parents: Both 80+ now, separated and with separate finances. One needs monthly help supplementing their income for fixed costs. Neither reached this life stage with a solid plan or safety net and one is actually still working. So as I come into middle age myself I’m catching up from two decades of under-earning and am now adding…

I need helping finding the name of a show Now I am not expecting a single soul to know this show but I vaguely remember seeing it when I was younger. It was an animated show, where the main characters could turn into other forms, the main character (I think) could gain butterfly wings and this fly mask sort of thing, a girl character I vividly remember turned into a giant eyeball, someo…

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LPT: Battle Loneliness by Helping Others Look for opportunities to spend time with others, especially in person. Be willing to share what you have. When you do, they are likely to respond with gratitude, which fosters friendship. In other words, be generous. submitted by /u/RoundTurtle538