Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. —John F. Kennedy In twenty-one years of government employment, I contributed less than $10,000 to my pension. Starting last October, I began collecting that pension. Twenty thousand smackeroonies a year until Mrs. Groovy dies (Mrs. G decided she’s exiting …
Oh, crap! I went to Rockstar Finance the other day and saw a featured post called, “Man Saves Thousands of Dollars Just By Thinking.” The post was written by Jacob over at Early Retirement Extreme, and it’s a gem. Here, for example, is an excerpt from one of his post’s fledgling thinkers describing how transformative …
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I’m not a minimalist, but I do appreciate the sentiment that your life should be as clutter-free as possible. So for sh%ts and giggles, I decided to perform a clutter audit on our house. For the purposes of my audit, I defined “clutter” as something that 1) Mrs. Groovy and I haven’t used in six …
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Fritz over at The Retirement Manifesto decided to rouse the collective energies of the FI community and see what if any drawdown strategies people have devised for their nest eggs. I made the Groovy contribution to this worthwhile endeavor earlier this week. Obviously, a good drawdown strategy is one that produces a strong likelihood of …
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What do you get when you combine water, untreated wood, and a two-story porch that may have been poorly designed? You get severe water damage and a $7,500 estimated repair bill. Ouch. Thankfully, this costly repair will burden my neighbor’s finances and not mine. But up until a couple of days ago, I wasn’t so …
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