A bout against unemployment isn’t won the day you secure a new job. It’s won months before you even lost your job in the first place—providing you had the foresight to establish an emergency fund. In other words, preparation is the key to surviving any calamity, whether it’s large or small. This brutal lesson really …
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Welding Becky Sue stops for no man—and no pandemic. Each day I trudge out to my welding “shop” and add at least five sections of rebar to Becky Sue. As of today, her body is starting to take shape. Take a gander. My goal is to have Becky Sue’s frame/skeleton finished by the end of …
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 …
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No one ever said building a life-size scrap-metal bison was going to be easy. And it certainly hasn’t been easy to focus on the artistic challenges of the bison build while my net worth has been cratering. As of yesterday, my net worth was down $348,000. I curse you, vile coronavirus! But earlier this week, …
I haven’t been watching the news, but I have no doubt that our government’s response to the coronavirus has been nothing short of a ham-fisted joke. I mean, c’mon. We haven’t won a war decisively since 1945, our public schools pump out the most costly educated dunces the world has ever seen, and our national …
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