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The Five Most Disturbing Results from the Student Loan Borrower Survey

Posted on August 10, 2016 / Updated April 23, 2017 by Mrs. Groovy

I recently came across the Student Loan Borrower Survey from LendEDU. LendEDU published it in January, 2016 after sending a team to various US colleges to find student loan borrowers. They interviewed 477 undergraduate and graduate students and concluded that current student loan borrowers know nothing about their student loans. Here are the five most …

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Why Aren’t You Living in a Trailer?

Posted on July 20, 2016 / Updated April 23, 2017 by Mr. Groovy

Calling all millennials. Calling all millennials. Why aren’t you living in trailer parks? I know this is a rather bizarre question to direct towards our beloved millennials, but hear me out. I did a quick Craigslist search of cheap rentals in my area, and, by far, the cheapest options were trailers. Pictured below is one …

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The Half-Normal Challenge

Posted on June 17, 2016 / Updated June 3, 2019 by Mr. Groovy

A couple of weeks ago, I came across a YouTube video by Erin Janus. I never heard of Miss Janus. Apparently she’s a vegan, and she cares deeply about animals and the planet. But that’s not the point of this post. The point of this post is that I find her views on materialism quite …

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Where the Heck Did All This Money Come From?

Posted on June 3, 2016 / Updated June 3, 2016 by Mr. Groovy

Last week I tweeted that Mrs. Groovy and I hit a milestone of sorts. We now have over $500K in our retirement accounts. I found this achievement to be rather remarkable for two reasons. First, we haven’t had our retirement accounts for very long. We opened our Roths in June of 2006. Mrs. Groovy began …

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Frugal Ways to Get a College Degree

Posted on May 23, 2016 / Updated October 19, 2019 by Mr. Groovy

Mrs. Groovy and I are old. So we love hearing from millennials about their adventures in personal finance. One millennial we are particularly fond of is Lila (Jaime) Donovan. Lila is a college student/artist who blogs over at Artsy Finance. If you get a chance, please visit her sites. I think you’ll enjoy her unique perspective …

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