Category: Frugality
The Five Most Disturbing Results from the Student Loan Borrower Survey
I recently came across the Student Loan Borrower Survey from LendEDU. LendEDU published it in January, 2016 after sending a team to various US colleges to find student loan borrowers. They interviewed 477 undergraduate and graduate students and concluded that current student loan borrowers know nothing about their student loans. Here are the five most…
Why Aren’t You Living in a Trailer?
Calling all millennials. Calling all millennials. Why aren’t you living in trailer parks? I know this is a rather bizarre question to direct towards our beloved millennials, but hear me out. I did a quick Craigslist search of cheap rentals in my area, and, by far, the cheapest options were trailers. Pictured below is one…
The Half-Normal Challenge
A couple of weeks ago, I came across a YouTube video by Erin Janus. I never heard of Miss Janus. Apparently she’s a vegan, and she cares deeply about animals and the planet. But that’s not the point of this post. The point of this post is that I find her views on materialism quite…
Where the Heck Did All This Money Come From?
Last week I tweeted that Mrs. Groovy and I hit a milestone of sorts. We now have over $500K in our retirement accounts. I found this achievement to be rather remarkable for two reasons. First, we haven’t had our retirement accounts for very long. We opened our Roths in June of 2006. Mrs. Groovy began…
One and a Half Awesome Benefits of Being Income Poor But Asset Rich
Note. The title of this post was changed from Two Awesome Benefits of Being Income Poor But Asset Rich to One and a Half Awesome Benefits of Being Income Poor But Asset Rich on 6/5/2016. This was done because Brad over at Maximize Your Money found a serious error in my second supposed benefit. Correcting…