When I read The Millionaire Next Door by William Stanley, I was amazed at how many millionaires lived in plain sight. If you think about popular exposure to wealth – it’s pretty flashy. We’re trained, by television and social media, to think that millionaires live a life of excess. Big mansions, expensive cars, lots of […]

For nearly ten years, we do the same exact thing every New Year’s Eve – we rent a large vacation house with our friends. It started as a reunion of sorts and, as each of our families grew, evolved into a four-day vacation rental. The first year we rented a house that had just four […]

Behind every mainstream story about a couple retiring in their 30s and traveling the world is a story of struggle, sacrifice, and smart trade-offs. The idea that you could retire early, that is to say before you were in your 60s, has been around for centuries. This History of F.I.R.E. published on Rockstar Finance is […]

If you’re like me, you know there’s nothing quite like cracking open a book. For decades us bookworms have amassed impressive collections of books to expand our small slice of the world. However, it’s easy to get overwhelmed with books. I used to have an entire room in my house just for my books. It […]

Ask a lot of travel hackers for the best rewards program and they will likely all say the same – Chase Ultimate Rewards. (for what it’s worth, I’m not a travel hacker, I just play a bad one on the internet) I wanted to see what the hype was and I got the Chase Ink […]

I love Southwest Airlines. We live about 20 minutes away from Baltimore Washington International Airport (BWI), one of Southwest’s “hubs,” and the vast majority of our flights are on Southwest Airlines. When it comes to an airline’s rewards credit cards, I’d argue that there are few cards are generous as the Southwest Rapid Rewards Credit […]

The flu is bad news. Like really bad news. And the 2018 flu season is going down as one of the worst in recent memory. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention keeps an influenza map of the United States and for the first time, the entire contiguous United States is the same color – […]

I’ve been tracking our net worth like a weirdo since I started working in 2003. That’s over 14 years of data. Sweet sweet data. That first row is so simple. 2 bank accounts, 1 brokerage account, and what I considered an impressive net worth of $8,745.69. Except I didn’t do it right. I only recorded […]

Happy New Year! Pop quiz hot shot – Can you guess the median number of years that a worker (wage & salary) has been with their current employer as of January 2016? 4.2 years. THAT’S IT. The days of staying in a job for decades is gone. Long gone. That statistic comes from our friends […]

(I don’t usually write a ton about the business of blogging, even though I do write about side hustles and entrepreneurship. With the FinCon conference around the corner, I wanted to touch on something I often get asked about – how I quit my job to pursue blogging full-time. You may not be thinking about […]