Well, the weather has cleared and the bathroom is done. It finally feels like I can live again! After this rotten winter I definitely plan on spending as much time as possible outside.Fortunately I did most of my gardening last year, so this year will revolve a lot more around long bike rides, fire pits, and hammocks 🙂 Financially speaking…
A key part of getting ahead is never resting on your laurels. Now that the bathroom is done its time that I start focusing on improving myself by picking up another skill – preferably one that actually makes me money. As it just so happens, an opportunity arose that I couldn’t pass up. Every year my city holds a garbage…
Its been a while since I last wrote anything about the bathroom remodel, but I can happily report that it is finally finished. We completed building the walls, mudding the corners, and putting in the vinyl plank flooring about a month ago, which was quickly followed by the toilet, shower base, shower tile and vanity. Though I didn’t do much…
“There’s nothing new in Wall Street. There can’t be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again.” Thus opens Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, a stock trading book authored by journalist Edwin Lefevre and trader Jesse Livermore that became an instant classic when it was first…
The weather has not improved much lately here in Minnesota, but the bathroom remodel project has made good strides – all that’s left is the painting and I can call it a day. To that end though, the fallout from my epic disaster with my roommate’s girlfriend continues. He decided to stay with her (despite the mess she’s made of…
Why the Rich are Getting Richer is the latest book in the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series, and Kiyosaki continues giving readers nuggets of wisdom distilled from decades of thought about personal finance. Nuggets is an apt metaphor however, because like real gold the reader needs to sift through pages of repetitious fluff to find the hard-hitting material, all while…
That’s right, I said it: Even God thinks that you should retire early. I know what you’re thinking: “Man, I just wanted to learn about early retirement. Why did you need to bring religion into this? We were getting along so well.” I’m sorry, but I bring it up to make a point. Many here in the FIRE community propose…
Well, I just had the worst night of my life. For the last few weeks we’ve sped up work on the house to get it ready in time for when my roommate’s girlfriend came up from Georgia. She arrived in the early afternoon and things were going grand, and in the evening the two of them went out to go…
It’s often said in the self-help literature and online articles that social/emotional intelligence is a key determinant of economic success, particularly in helping people up the career ladder. I can say that this is true from experience, having witnessed brilliant people get fired due to their social incompetence, and having struggled controlling my own emotions under stress. But what does…
Today will be a short post. Its been a few months since I’ve last discussed my New Year’s Eve goals, but I feel that now is a good time to rehash it. The more I focus on them after all, the more likely it is that I will attain them! after all! Spend next to nothing outside of food &…