Take the Spartan Challenge!

Are you groovy enough to take the Spartan Challenge? I don’t mean a race or an athletic competition. I’m using the dictionary definition of Spartan as an adjective to mean ‘marked by strict self-discipline or self-denial’. Do you have a costly vice? Or some excess that isn’t worth the time and money to maintain? Maybe you …

Buying a Second Home?

Have you thought about buying a second home? Maybe you’ve dreamed of owning a vacation retreat? Like many of you, Mr. Groovy and I have had visions of escaping to our own little wonderland. I’d like to share with you what we have learned as we pursued buying land and building a second home. Reasons …

No-Nonsense DIY Expense Tracker

The goal of any self-respecting freedomist is to free himself or herself from the tyranny of financial dependency. When you have to work in order to survive, you’re financially dependent. When you don’t have to work, when you only labor because it suits your whim or excites you, you’re financially independent. To achieve financial independence …

Best Home Gym You’ll Ever Need, and for Under a Hundred Bucks

If you want to be financially independent, and no longer have to work, you’ll need to save at least 25 times your annual living expenses. For a great blog post explaining the logic behind this rule, I highly recommend this one from Mr. Money Mustache. Now, if you’re a person of modest means, like me, …