Author: Mr. Groovy
The Superpower of Appreciating Simple Joys
When Mrs. Groovy and I lived on Long Island, we would have dinner at the Valley Stream White Castle on Valentine’s Day. At first, we did our frugal Valentine’s Day out of necessity. For the first couple of years of our relationship, we were very mediocre at earning and managing money. But as our incomes…
Manufactured Ineptitude
Let’s for a moment suppose that I’m a dirty, rotten scoundrel. I want a majority of my fellow Americans to be miserable and broke and incapable of managing their lives. How would I go about creating this epidemic of ineptitude? I would do the following three things. Financial Ignorance by Design The fundamentals of personal…
Becky Sue Beat Me Up this Week
My goal this week for the bison build was to complete the assembly of the bison silhouette, get that silhouette up on the bison cart, and then attach structural legs to that silhouette. Never again would my beloved bison be mistaken for a whale! But alas, Becky Sue, my advanced age, and my poorly functioning…
Moby Sue the Bison-Whale?
It’s been cold in North Carolina lately. Not Minnesota or Wisconsin cold, but cold enough to make working in an unheated garage very disagreeable. (We’re talking about temperatures in the mid-30s.) So I looked at the start of this week with great joy. Temperatures were moving back to the mid-50s and this meant I could…
If You Don’t Know Money, You Need to Watch this Guy in a Turban
Slaking my thirst for personal finance knowledge usually meant running to blogs and podcasts. But lately, that has changed. I now imbibe far more personal finance knowledge via YouTube videos than blogs and podcasts. And one of my favorite personal finance YouTubers is a guy named Jaspreet Singh. Check out his recent video on The…