Strategies & tactics to get ahead financially & in life
Years ago, I was a voracious watcher of TED talks. I like how they’re short, incisive, and usually represented the starting thread of an idea or concept that you could slowly unravel for many hours, if not days, if you really wanted to. For example, here’s one from Tim Urban, creator of Wait But Why […]
If you find yourself with a lot of extra time on the weekends and want to put it towards a good cause, consider putting in some community service. Becoming a volunteer can be one of the most rewarding things you can do. Volunteering is a great way to donate your time, perhaps learn new skills, […]
Every few months, someone will publish an article about how folks making $xx,xxx per year don’t feel rich. The latest I’ve seen is a MarketWatch piece where that number was $90,000. It referred to a YouGov survey in which 87% of 1,163 respondents said that if you made $90,000 a year, you weren’t rich or […]
Today’s post comes courtesy of a blogging friend I met a few years ago at FinCon in San Diego. At the time, she was anonymous, working in politics (I’m sure you can understand the need for anonymity!), but well on her way to early retirement (another good reason to remain hidden!). In the couple years […]
As we near the end of the year, charities will make their big fourth quarter push to drum up contributions. Many folks think about donations near the end of the year because it’s a charitable time around the holidays. It’s also the last time you can make a donation and deduct it from your taxes. […]
Today’s article comes courtesy of Doria Lavagnino, co-founder of CentSai.com, an educational website that looks to teach personal finance through storytelling. As our kids are getting older, I’ve always wondered how we could best juggle our careers and their needs. When I was working at Northrop Grumman, I remember one of the executives left his […]
I grew up with a relatively privileged upbringing in the 1980s. We were what I still consider solidly middle class. My parents owned a single-family home in the suburbs on Long Island, my dad had a stable white collar job, my mom also worked part-time while we weren’t in school, we never worried about food […]
When I was younger, I remembering playing chess with my dad and always losing. I didn’t play a lot and I was never more than a casual player. Starting around Thanksgiving of last year, I started playing online a little bit more. I’m somewhere around a 1200 on Chess.com (15/10 time controls), which puts me […]
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 […]