300,000 The average number of items in an American home. 80% Portion of items in our house we rarely or never use, according to surveys conducted by the National Organization of Professional Organizers. 100% Increase in consumption of material goods over the past 50 years. 1% The total material flow-through of consumption which is still in […]
Archives for August 2017
5 Chances for Free Money: Class Action Lawsuits and Triple Cash Back [Deal Alert]
We interrupt these regularly scheduled blog posts to share some deals! It’s been a while since we’ve had a deal alert on this site. Hopefully you took advantage of a couple thousand dollars from our last deal alert, but if not, here’s to round two! Deal #1: Up to $900 from telemarketing scammers “Hello, you […]
How to Track Your Spending Using the iPhone’s Numbers App
By this point you’re probably sick of hearing me harp about the importance of tracking your spending. The regular readers will recognize that I mention it during pretty much every net worth update. I bring it up whenever I’m interviewed by the media. And there’s even that time I linked to someone else talking about […]
Get Rich by Building Your Own Nuclear Triad of Income
If you haven’t been following the news, you may have missed the recent escalation of 70 years’ worth of tensions between the USA and North Korea, which has us all in danger of getting nuked. I’m no expert in political current events, but the cliff notes version goes something like this: On July 28, North […]
These Three Famous Early Retirees Will Surprise You
Blame it on the “retirement” part of the name, but early retirement tends to get a bad rap. The common vision of early retirement involves a 40 year old cheap bastard sitting around all day playing video games. That’s not exactly what I have in mind. Early retirement is far from an excuse to be […]
