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Another Great Benefit of Financial Independence: Having a Large Margin of Error
If having money to pay for your needs and wants is the only measure of your well-being, the coronavirus pandemic currently roiling the world’s economy has done nothing to damage me and Mrs. Groovy. That’s the beauty of financial independence. Not being dependent on a job, business, or government check for your livelihood leaves you…
What Blogger Has the Biggest Cojones?
Our financial groin has been getting stomped on by the coronavirus. Since 2/19/2020, our net worth is down $289,000. And for this month thus far, our net worth is down a staggering $175,000. Check it out. And, yet, Mrs. Groovy and I smile. Stocks are on sale and we’ve already exchanged $90,000 worth of bonds…
2020 Statement of Purpose
What’s the point of this blog? When Mrs. G and I first began this blog over four years ago, it was a clear-cut personal finance blog. Mrs. G and I got our financial act together rather late in life (mid-40s), and we thought our quest for financial independence was an interesting story. But since that…
The Groovy Fund
Mrs. Groovy and I have drunk copious amounts of index-fund Kool-Aid. We are Bogleheads through and through. As such, nearly 100 percent of our investment portfolio is devoted to just two funds: a total stock market index fund and a total bond market index fund. But we do have a small amount of our investment…
The Rooster Whisperer
Last weekend, Mrs. Groovy and I took in some local flavor with Groovy Mom and Groovy Sis. We went to an animal sanctuary called the Piedmont Farm Animal Refuge. Surprise, surprise, I wasn’t exactly thrilled with the idea of spending a good chunk of my Sunday at some obscure animal sanctuary located in an equally…