Minimum Required Income for Financial Independence

This post was last modified on 8/16/2019 because Steverark pointed out a glaring deficiency in my MRI-RI Calculator that couldn’t be ignored. I neglected to account for inflation. Someone who is spending $40,000 annually today will be spending a lot more than that 20 or 30 years hence. Over the next couple of days, I …

7 Tips for Choosing a Realtor

Mrs. Groovy here. I have a favor to ask of you. Mr. Groovy’s post about Egotrage (a word and concept he coined,) is featured in the Rockstar Rumble over at Rockstar Finance today and he needs your vote. We’re already seeing other bloggers use Egotrage as a real word, like here on Catfood Retirement—and that’s without …

Ten Bloggers Who Inspired Me This Week

Haha! I think I read the blog post of the year this week on Rockstar Finance. It was written by Crispy Doc, and it expertly explained how anyone can freeze his or her credit. Here’s Crispy’s exquisite how-to in its entirety: “Links below to freeze your credit report, can be done completely online:” Freakin’ beautiful. …

Motivation to Buck Normal Is in Your Pocket

Normal sucks. Normal means spending $100K for a college education that will be little remembered and little used. Normal means walking into a doctor’s office with an ailment and not asking the doctor what he or she will charge to treat that ailment. And normal means amassing debt, tolerating a pointless job, and living paycheck …