These are posts that are part of a series that covers particular themes.
RetirementSavvy is the inter connectivity of physical and fiscal fitness. Last week my wife asked me to make final payment on the children’s summer camp tuition. I groaned and mumbled for a bit wondering if it would be easier [read: less expensive] to send them to day camp. I started adding up the cost associated …
A Richer Understanding: Physical and Fiscal Fitness Read More »
I was recently exploring several personal finance blog sites I subscribe to and have noticed a pattern among the comments in stories about us frugal folks. We constantly run into opposition and misunderstanding from those who do not quite get our non-traditional mindset. We are spoken to rudely or given weird looks by those who …
When someone asks me how they are supposed to get out of debt or get ahead financially, I give them several helpful tips including one that I think is underrated and often forgotten…Give Blood/Plasma. I live about eight miles from a facility that pays around $25 every time I donate blood. Following the rules and …
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I would like to take you on a mental journey to a place of less … less consumption, less waste, less spending, less accumulation of stuff. In this place, less actually leads to more – I see your forehead wrinkling but stay with me. Less spending yields more saving and less consumption yields more contentment. …
Taz Bright helms this series. Taz is a father, speaker, long-time business owner and graduate of the school of hard-knocks. Taz uses his past business and personal finance experience to help steer others in a positive financial direction while, hopefully, avoiding the mistakes he’s made along the way. As a former 6-year victim of Identity Theft, …
If you are like me, and spend any amount of time cruising around the Internet, you have likely come across an advertisement, in one form or another, for the Dollar Shave Club — Shave Time. Shave Money. I have used the Gillette Mach3 for as long as I can remember. And while I have always been satisfied with …
I am an avid reader. My favorite genres are fantasy, sci-fi, action-adventure, business and economics. I can easily spend eight hours reading and be fully content. I use both the Kindle and Barnes & Noble apps on my tablet and cell phone. It is not uncommon to find me reading while following my wife around the …
Living frugally means more than simply looking for ways to spend less. According to dictionary.reference.com… fru • gal [froo-guhl] economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful. Economical in use or expenditure might refer to spending less. However, how might a savvy individual save prudently and not be wasteful? Here are a few practices …
Living Frugally: Loose Change, Contributions, and Scraping Read More »
I know several very short-sighted people. They live for the moment, they don’t plan far into the future and as a result, they are always running low on time, money, and freedom. Their time is always short because they constantly squander it. A daily planner is almost a foreign tool in their minds. They refuse …
