Category: Lifestyle
If You Have Just One Free Hour a Day, You Can Kill Your Money Woes
I never saw the movie Predator in its entirety. But I do remember this epiphany that the character Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) had when he discovered the blood of the movie’s super formidable villain on the ground. If it bleeds, we can kill it. Dutch didn’t say that killing ol’ crab face was going to be…
Three Cheap Ways to Be Happier
Here’s a shocking revelation for you, life is short. I went to the Social Security Administration’s website and entered my gender and date of birth in its Life Expectancy Calculator. Here’s what it spit out. Holy purple cats! Multiply 26.3 years by 365.25 days and you get 9,606 days. That’s basically what I have left.…
Honor Begets Financial Dividends
At the height of his career, Harvey Weinstein made more in a month than I made in forty years of work. But he was under the assumption that power and influence gave him license to degrade and abuse people—especially women—and that makes him a scumbag loser in my book. Conversely, I personally know several people…
Geoarbitrage Is a Great Way to Reinvent Yourself
Anyone familiar with this site knows I’m a big fan of geoarbitrage. When done correctly, it’s a great way to lower your housing costs and free up a lot of money for investing. For example, Mrs. Groovy and I lowered our housing costs to roughly 3% of our household income by relocating to Charlotte. Had…
I’m So Boring, Drying Paint would Yawn at Me
I’m so boring, drying paint would yawn at me. I made a comment to this effect on an excellent post by Liz, over at the Chief Mom Officer blog. When I told Mr. Groovy about my comment he laughed heartily. I don’t often get that kind of reaction from him so I thought I’d go…