When I was a young child, I counted the years until I was free of the treachery of school. I added up all the middle school years ahead of me, then the high school and finally college. It seems like an infinity waiting until the days that I would become […]
Money
I’m a lazy real estate investor. Sure, I own a home, but I don’t want to deal with fixing toilets or collecting rent. I’m guessing you don’t want to deal with that crap either (pun intended). Lucky for us there are a couple options that will give us the returns […]
When it comes to retirement accounts the 401(k) is the standard. It’s offered from work, easy to set up and fund, and typically offers only a few choices making it an easy solution for saving money. One of the most perplexing choices when it comes to 401(k) is to decide […]
As of the time of this writing, my wife and I have saved and invested half of a million dollars in just under six years. To be clear we’re already millionaires, but in 2015 we opened a brokerage account that would be used to fund our very early retirements and […]
Too many people making investing hard or complicated, and when investing gets complicated it gets hard. In fact, there’s a whole tv channel dedicated to the intricacies of the investing world. Millionaires tend to do things differently. After all, if they were like everyone else they wouldn’t be millionaires. The […]
Disney World vacations are Awesome! In fact, Disney World is one of my favorite places on the planet but, 2020 has brought some major changes. I firmly believe that it’s still possible to have an awesome Disney vacation during the covid pandemic. In fact, I’m researching the changes that Disney […]
Most financial experts agree that calculating your net worth is valuable to understanding your financial picture, so I decided to recalculate mine and create a break down of my net worth by category. Here’s what I found: Unproductive Assets Cash 3.2%: Emergency fund and working accounts like checking and savings. […]
We all need to avoid making mistakes with our money. I would know, I’ve made a bunch myself. When we make these mistakes it’s important to correct them (if possible) and ensure that we don’t make the same ones again. My biggest goal is to build a legacy for my […]