The folks over at Our Next Life recently posted an article entitled "The Retirement Lie." As with most of their articles, I found that it paralleled a lot [...]
Before I get into my reasoning for early mortgage payoff, let's talk a minute about the view from the other side. This is an age-old argument - probably [...]
So, you've gotten out of debt (hurray!) and, in doing so, created a budget. Now what do you do with all of this extra money that is no longer going to things [...]
The folks over at OurNextLife (a fantastic blog on the topic of Financial Independence / Retire Early ("FIRE") issued an interesting challenge recently that [...]
I've shared before that some of my biggest financial mistakes of my 20s were not budgeting, becoming comfortable with debt and not saving. It turns out, this [...]
Okay, this may be one analogy too many, but stick with me here.....
Good Health = Diet and Exercise
My exercise of choice is running. When you run [...]
This is Part 1 in my Personal Finance Basics series.
It doesn't get much more basic than understanding the numbers on your paystub. It's amazing how much [...]
In the preceding post, I shared my thoughts around the Trial By Fire / On-the-Job Training that is how we learn parenting. Despite how monumentally [...]
Debt.
Is there a more foul four-letter-word for us in the middle class?
Soul-crushing, marriage-ruining, ulcer-inducing DEBT.
Debt is your enemy and [...]
Let me get this out of the way first: If you choose to define middle class by income level, most guidelines returned by Uncle Google will indicate that I moved [...]