Last Thursday I was having a really great day. I was getting important stuff done and feeling like I was making some good progress on the day’s goals. My parents were coming into town to visit with us for a few days and the weekend was nearing. And then I got the email. As I […]
Saving Money
The 14 best money tools & apps I personally use
This page is the Cliffnotes version of all the best financial tools I have discovered as a professional money blogger over the last 15 years. This means that you can save hundreds of hours of research and trial and error and get the shortcut to the best stuff out there. No joke, I opened 34 […]
25 Top Ways To Save Money (that work fast)
25 ways to save money by not doing what “normal” people do. A lot of money can be saved by thinking “outside the box.”
How we travel for free [161 hotel nights and 103 flights all free]
I know when you read a title like “how to travel the U.S. for free” you can’t help but be suspicious. But stick with me on this – if this is new to you, you are going to like it. Over the last 5 years, we have gotten 161 hotel nights and 100+ flights all […]
Why I use credit cards instead of debit cards or cash
The simple truth is that while they cost me a lot of money early in my life in interest charges (because of my bad financial habits), at this point, they save me far more money than I could have ever imagined. This is another one of those articles that I should have written years ago, […]
Net Given: The Better Metric To Track
(The following is a transcription from a video Linda and I recorded. Please excuse any typos or errors.) We’ve recorded a video about “8 Habits of Wealthy and Successful People.” And one of the things that they did, was that they keep track. This is actually something that we had already been thinking and talking […]
10 Things Every Parent Should Tell Their Kids (and Themselves)
Because the world encourages us to seek success so diligently, we almost need to have an entirely different mindset in order to find happiness. Along that line, here are several things every parent should tell their kids — and themselves — about how to find true happiness in life — even if financial success never comes your way.
How Cars Affect your Financial Freedom
I had a revelation about cars that has caused me to not really care what mine looks like. It’s not that I don’t want a really fast car, it is just that there is something I want a bit more: financial freedom.
