My good blogging buddy, Matt, over at Optimize Your Life, penned a very intriguing post last week. The name of the post was, Politics and the Things We Can Control, and the gist of the post can be boiled down to one pithy sentence: Government matters and personal finance bloggers shouldn’t be completely disengaged from …
Today we have a guest post from Kraken of Fireball Finances. He very graciously offered it to us because it aligns with the desire for freedom and the behavioral economics themes we focus on at Freedom Is Groovy. We hope you enjoy it. We all want freedom right? However, everyone sees freedom differently. Some see …
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I was in a groovy mood last night, so I decided to look at retirement planning through the prism of the grooviest music of all time—the music from the psychedelic 60s. Can I get a “woot woot” for Janis, Jimi, Mick, and the Lizard King? Yes, I know that’s weird. And, no, I wasn’t smoking …
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“Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!” Yep, this sage articulation of things going completely off-rail by Dr. Peter Venkman immediately came to mind when I read Joe Saul-Sehy’s email asking me if I would like to participate in a Stacking Benjamins’ roundtable. Really, Joe? Wasn’t it bad enough that you subjected poor Linda, …
Up until five years ago, Mr. Groovy and I were the ultimate chumps. We rented a storage unit. We could not fit the entirety of our stuff into a 2,000 square foot home with an attic and a two car garage. No, we paid $60+ a month for the luxury of a temperature controlled 10 …
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