Here’s an epiphany that hit me the other day. I was deciding on my annual money goals, and I hit a mental wall. I was dreaming up an ambitious plan: to see if I can save $40,000 over the next year. And yet, all the typical excuses started crawling out from their hiding places and […]
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How I Spend Less than $35 a Week on Groceries (my full shopping list, exposed!)
Have you ever done something that you thought was totally normal, only to be met with shock when you shared it with the rest of the world? The first time this happened to me was when I went to college, and realized everyone thought I was nuts for safety pinning my socks together in the […]
Don’t end up like these furloughed employees. Live within your means to avoid financial disaster.
If you’ve followed the news at all, logged into twitter, or even just stepped outside from underneath a rock, you’ve no doubt heard about the ongoing government shutdown. Today, the shutdown hits its 30th continuous day, which places this closure a full week longer than the second longest shutdown in government history. The lock up […]
I spent $14,634 remodeling my kitchen, and I learned how spoiled I really am.
Nelson from FinancialUproar.com calls it HGTV Syndrome. We all know what it is, even if we’ve never applied a name. You start watching HGTV. A lovely couple moves into an “okay” house. They spend a couple dollars, hire a few contractors, and before you know it, that okay house is an amazing one! Best of […]
This 100-year-old retiree with $5 million in the bank has a simple lesson for us all.
Step aside, early retirees. Orville Rogers has your retirement goals dwarfed. And he’s not even trying. You see, I’ve talked a lot on this blog about hypotheticals. A couple million here, a few decades there. Then there’s Orville Rogers. He’s a former airplane pilot who, at age 60, was forced to retire due to the […]
