Last June, Mrs. Groovy and I got a new-to-us car, a 2016 Honda CRV for $21,035.91. We christened our new Honda, “Penny,” and she came to us with 32,635 miles on her odometer. Now, because I run a personal finance blog, I decided to follow the prescribed maintenance schedule of the manufacturer to the tee. …
Check out the below YouTube clip. It’s a classic clip from the sitcom Taxi and it should remind you of someone. Who does this remind you of? Does it remind you of the current White House occupant? It certainly reminds me of President Trump. Here’s Louie’s resounding defense of his stock-broker stint: What you call …
When Mrs. Groovy and I lived on Long Island, we would have dinner at the Valley Stream White Castle on Valentine’s Day. At first, we did our frugal Valentine’s Day out of necessity. For the first couple of years of our relationship, we were very mediocre at earning and managing money. But as our incomes …
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Let’s for a moment suppose that I’m a dirty, rotten scoundrel. I want a majority of my fellow Americans to be miserable and broke and incapable of managing their lives. How would I go about creating this epidemic of ineptitude? I would do the following three things. Financial Ignorance by Design The fundamentals of personal …
My goal this week for the bison build was to complete the assembly of the bison silhouette, get that silhouette up on the bison cart, and then attach structural legs to that silhouette. Never again would my beloved bison be mistaken for a whale! But alas, Becky Sue, my advanced age, and my poorly functioning …