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 […]
Saving Money
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 […]
The 30 for 30 Rule: Become a Millionaire with Just $30 a Day
One of my favorite shows, in the worst way possible, was that Ancient Aliens show on the History Channel. Not because it’s a good show, but because it’s so laughably bad that it makes for some of the best mindless entertainment on TV. (To be clear: TV is all mindless entertainment. So if you’re going […]
8 Frugal Tricks I Used to Buy a $30,000 Kitchen Remodel for $14,634
Drumroll please… I’m proud to announce that after months… and months… and months… of waiting, we’re finally finished with The Great Money Wizard Kitchen Remodel of 2018. As regular readers can surely attest, I started to sound like a broken record with my constant “almost done” reminders in the net worth updates. What started as […]
The Only 3 Expenses that Matter for Saving Serious Cash
We’ve all heard of the 80/20 rule right? It’s sometimes more fancily referred to as The Pareto Principle after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who calculated 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. Of course, some business management consultants took the idea and ran with it, pitching the idea that […]
