The other day I neglected to enter my bathroom with either my smartphone or the Tools of Titans. So there I was, on the bowl, with nothing to occupy my fertile mind. In a desperate attempt to do something productive, I found myself looking at a part of my bathroom I rarely gazed upon—the bottom guide …
Continue reading “Are You Tending to the Nooks and Crannies of Your Financial House?”
When my good friend Fritz over at The Retirement Manifesto calls for a chain gang, I don’t ask questions. I do whatever I have to do get in on the chain. In this chain gang challenge, Fritz drew inspiration from JW over at The Green Swan. JW devised a handy tool to gauge your progress …
Oh my gosh. We’re practically half way through August. FinCon 2017 is just around the corner. Sadly, Mrs. Groovy and I aren’t attending this year’s conference in Dallas. Too much on our plate. (I know. Lame excuse.) But if we were attending, I’d be nervous as hell. After all, to the blogging community, I’m a …
I don’t remember the reason why, but I recently looked up what it cost us to operate and maintain our house in 2016. Here are the results. At $9,876.07, our housing costs amounted to 8.9% of our pretax income. Pretty neat. And that percentage would have been even less if Mrs. Groovy and I worked …
Continue reading “It’s Amazing How Much Money You Can Save When You Own Your House Outright”
Discipline equals freedom. —Jocko Willink Bill Gates has a lot more money than you do. Okay, duh. No earth-shattering revelation there. But in at least one respect, you and Bill are equals. You both get 24 hours every day to do something with your respective lives. Be More Productive Than Slothful If you want to …