The poor will always be with us in America because the poor engage in a lot of self-sabotage. This post lists five things the poor shouldn’t do—especially the young poor—if they want to give themselves a shot of becoming affluent. The Poor Defined To make things simple, I’m defining a poor person as any non-retired …
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 …
In rural North Carolina, it’s not uncommon to see a dog running wild. Dog owners tend to keep their dogs outside, and some dog owners aren’t overly concerned about limiting their dog’s roaming activities to their own particular property (i.e., they don’t fence or tether their dog). So three months ago, when we woke up …
Last week I wrote a post about the state of our finances three years into retirement. But in that post, I never pointed out what I liked and didn’t like about retirement. Today’s post aims to correct that dreadful oversight. Here we go. Three Things I Like About Retirement No Shortage of Things to Do …
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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 …