1% doesn’t seem like a big deal. Out of a dollar, it is a penny that you probably walk by on the street and don’t even think of picking up. A 1% price increase at the grocery store doesn’t stop you from bringing anything home. $10 on a $1,000 purchase, not going to raise any […]
Turning Savings Hacks into Charity Hacks
I write and read a lot about creative ways to save and invest money, but what can happen when we take some of that ingenuity and turn it into a charity hacking engine? Can we take a little and make a lot? Can a small amount of money make a difference? I think this point […]
Remember this when the inevitable happens
3 times in the last few weeks I felt like a podcast was speaking directly to me. I don’t remember the quotes exactly, but it was along the lines of “A lot of these Millennials preaching index fund investing and “long-term” investing have only invested in a bull market, we will see what they are […]
This store has the lowest prices on Everything
I am going to start featuring writers from other blogs over the next few months to share different investing/money saving techniques that I haven’t thought of or figured out yet. If you want to guest post reach out to me through my contact page. Today’s guest post comes from Dreamer in Chief, the father of […]
How long will it take us to reach Financial Independence
In my previous post, First Shot at our FI Number, we looked at how much money Mrs. AE and I will need to declare Financial Independence. In this post, we are going to look at how long it could take us. Queue anxiety now. I have mentioned this before, but we are not passionate about […]
First Shot at our Financial Independence Number
To date, we have held off on figuring out our Financial Independence number, mostly due to a number of future unknowns. This post has been sitting in “draft” status since early January……but I really want to know my Financial Shit, so I am going to take a shot at formulating our number. Even though this […]
Personal Finance in 10 Quotes
I professed my love for time-tested investing advice from great minds in my previous post on market speculation and decided to expand it into an all out Quote Assault on Personal Finance today. This is the quick and dirty guide to my views on personal finance, aided with quotes that I may or may not […]
