Push and Coast

Earlier this year, I had a post detailing how I cut wood for 30 days straight. Here’s one of the pictures from that post. It shows the workbench portion of my project after the 30 days. Since that 30-day challenge, Mrs. Groovy and I jetted off to Australia for a month, and I casually enhanced …

Permissiveness Equals Slavery

My favorite FI-related quote by far is Jocko Willink’s, “Discipline equals freedom.” Those three words say it all. If you can subdue your innate attraction to consumption, gluttony, vice, and sloth, you will very likely be in control of your finances and beholden to no one. Now, don’t ask me why, but my fertile mind …

The Groovy Rule of 2-2-2

When I was a kid, one of my favorite television shows was Room 222. This show was about a high school in California and I was intrigued by it because I was a preteen for most of its run, and little kids are naturally fascinated with the lives of big kids. I also had a …

The System Works! Or Does It?

Mrs. Groovy and I have now been retired for three years. And I must say that we are kicking this retirement thing’s ass. Here’s the skinny on our retirement thus far: Since retiring, our net worth has increased by $190,000. That works out to an average increase of $63,000 per year. Between my pension and …

The Only Two Questions You Need to Answer If You Want to Improve Your Finances

I came across yet another academic study that blamed the achievement gap between black and white students on—you guessed it—something other than black students and their parents. This time the culprit was segregation and poverty. The study, Is Separate Still Unequal, can be downloaded here, and it’s worth a look if you don’t mind reading …