If the grocery store is willing to manipulate you to get you to spend more money on less healthy food, surely there must be a way to get maximum savings out of the store, right? Let’s brainstorm some frugal grocery shopping tips that should have us coming out ahead at the market.
Thanks to those who entered my little giveaway! In the end, there were two entrants. To make the drawing fair, I visited random.org, and used their random number generator tool to pick a number between 1 and 2. Here was the…
Let me introduce you to someone who spends more than he earns, much of it on holding off the crushing wall of debt he’s accumulated. He vacations wastefully, owns two vehicles, and thinks he’s entitled to luxuries like a new computer every year and the newest model of smartphone on the release date. Not only does he not save for retirement, but the very thought of saving seems impossible.
Occasionally, when I reveal our early retirement game plan to a friend or family member, someone will ask me if I’m afraid I’ll be bored in early retirement. In actuality, I anticipate being much more busy! Here are my top ten early retirement activities.
As I write this post, the US stock market has shed 10% of its value over the past five days. The Chinese markets just opened for the day, and promptly fell another 8.5%. Let me tell you why this is the best day on the market in years.
It’s not easy to explain that you want to retire early. It’s even more difficult to explain how. I’m trying an experiment with infographics to see if I can cover a few of the common questions people have when they’re trying to decide whether retiring early is possible.
Travel Hacking. That’s the term for how we travel for next to nothing. Near-zero is really the only budget we can afford while we pursue early retirement, so it’s incredibly fortunate that it’s possible to trade time spent researching for a chance to travel…
If there is one habit which I believe contributes to my ability to save as much as I do, more than any of the others I have developed in the past few years, it’s tracking my expenses on a daily basis.
Per my Integrity Policy, I want to let you know that there are referral links on this page. If you click one of them and purchase supplies for your pets, I may receive a commission. I have only accepted referral…
Work and wealth are intertwined, but one is not a straight line to the other. We all remember the feeling of receiving our first paycheck. We tore open our pay stub and looked at the modest amount within and thought, “Hot…