Tag: debt
The Dean Wormer Guide to Personal Finance
As fate would have it, the movie Animal House came out a year before I went away to college. Not good. I actually embraced the fictional Deltas as role models, and my first round of college was characterized by far too much debauchery and far too little learning. But despite its harmful affects on my…
A New, New Low for Stacking Benjamins
“Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!” Yep, this sage articulation of things going completely off-rail by Dr. Peter Venkman immediately came to mind when I read Joe Saul-Sehy’s email asking me if I would like to participate in a Stacking Benjamins’ roundtable. Really, Joe? Wasn’t it bad enough that you subjected poor Linda,…
Is An Emergency Fund Beyond 5K Overkill?
Last week, I came across a post by Greg McFarlane over at Investopedia called, Why Emergency Funds Are a Bad Idea. And before I weigh in on the crux of his argument, I thought I’d review my emergency fund experience. My Emergency Fund Experience First off, Mrs. Groovy and I got very lucky when it…