We have an extra post this week. I am in the process of moving to four posts each week but this week there will be five. The reason is that I received an email Monday night with a sense of urgency to it. So I'm writing this on Tuesday (yesterday by the time it posts) and it's going live on Wednesday. As you'll see below, the reader has an interview on Friday, so we have … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2016
Kids and Car Incentives
Our kids have been approaching driving age for several years. Now that they have arrived at driving age, my wife and I needed to wrap up a long discussing we'd been having about getting cars for the kids. We had promised them that we would match whatever money they saved for a car. Over time they each saved $2,000 or so. As you know, a $4,000 car is not that great. We … [Read more...]
Can Getting Up Early Make You Wealthy?
You may have noticed in this site's right sidebar that there's a section titled "what I'm reading now" about two-thirds of the way down the page. Listed there is a book titled The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM). I actually read it for the first time a few months ago and have been re-reading it again both for … [Read more...]
The Cost of Divorce
In The Ten Worst Money Mistakes Anyone Can Make I listed the following as #7: Marrying the wrong person As I noted, this can be a double-edged sword. I stated: There are actually two major financial mistakes related to marriage: marrying a spendthrift and getting divorced. In this post I'd like to discuss the latter of these two problems. 50% of 50% of 50% of 50% of 50% is … [Read more...]
Brands I Love
We all have brands we love, right? Those companies that for one reason or another we go back to again and again. I thought it would be interesting for me to share mine and for you to do the same! My Criteria But before we go there, let me detail the criteria I use before I decide to "love" a company: Good value -- It doesn't have to be the cheapest price (in fact, … [Read more...]
Being Healthy Can Grow Your Net Worth
Shortly after I posted Physical Fitness and Financial Fitness I ran into a Money Magazine article titled "Get Healthy, Get Wealthy." This was the exact point I made in my post -- except with stats to back up what they said! :) The Money article was several pages long, so I'll post on it now and again to be sure we cover all the main points. The general overview is that … [Read more...]
Seven Rewarding Reads for the Beach
Now that summer is almost over, I'm getting around to posting this. :) Money magazine had an article in their July issue that lists "seven rewarding reads for the beach". The idea is that these are good personal finance books to read while you're lounging at the beach. I'm thinking that if they are good for the beach, they're good for home too. :) Anyway, I thought … [Read more...]
Retirement 30-Day Update
Well, it's been 30 days since I retired (it happened a couple weeks before I posted on it) and I thought I'd let you know what I've been up to. FYI, I'll do a specific update every so often but I'll be talking about retirement and the new lifestyle throughout other posts as well (of course). But for now, here's what's happened the past 30 days: I'm still getting up … [Read more...]
