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 …
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Big week. We’re meeting with the designer tomorrow, so we’ll know pretty soon if our idea of a dream home can be drawn up for a reasonable cost. Whether it can be built for a reasonable cost is another matter entirely. But first things first. In the meantime, Mrs. Groovy and I spent the weekend …
At its most elementary level, geoarbitrage makes sense when it lowers your expenses far more than your take-home pay and the gap between your expenses and your take-home pay grows decidedly larger. To show what I mean, let’s take a quick look at the Groovy gap before and after we left New York. Groovy Gap …
Mrs. Groovy and I have a very simple tax situation. Our income is $30K a year—$20K from my New York State pension and $10K in dividends from our brokerage accounts. We own our house outright, have no kids, and pay very little in state and local taxes ($3,000). Since our tax deductions are so low …
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I’m a fraud. Up until now, I thought my ears were long since deaf to the siren call of materialism. And for good reason. You don’t go from broke to FI in fourteen years on a modest household income by succumbing to rank consumerism. But then Mrs. Groovy and I put together our needs and …