Tag: talking trash

I Got Nothing, Again!
Whew! What a busy week. Groovy Ranch, my book, and life—those things required far more hours than the 168 hours the week allotted me. But, hey, no one ever said retirement was going to be easy. Anyway, I apologize for this very lame post, groovy freedomist. It could be my lamest post of all time.…

Taxes and Obamacare and Sasha and Talking Trash
My taxes are easy. Pension income plus dividend income minus standard deductions and personal exemptions for a married couple filing jointly times ten percent. So I do my taxes myself and file online using one of the IRS’s free software tools. In the previous two years, it took me about an hour to do my…

Tito, Three Horsemen, and Talking Trash
Mrs. Groovy here. Yes, I’m electioneering again and asking for your help. Mr. Groovy has made it to Round 4 of the Rockstar Rumble, a friendly competition among personal finance bloggers. Please take a moment to head on over to Rockstar Finance and vote for “Egotrage” in game 8. Every vote counts! Thank you! Every…

The Great American Financial Blog Post That Wasn’t
Oh, man, writing is hard. I had this great post in the works for today. The name of it was—get this—”Rich, Free, and Poor.” Doesn’t that title just grab you? And it wasn’t clickbait, at all. This post is bursting with profound insights. Rockstar worthy insights, mind you! The only problem is that it’s an…

The Geoarbitrage Calculator
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…