Lately I’ve seen several great articles floating around about how to teach your kids about financial matters. As a father of 2 myself I tend to read every one of these posts that I can find, because I want to give my kids every opportunity to learn about effective money management when they are […]
Result Of Disconnecting Cable TV
I was in my office at work the other day when a coworker came to my door. “I need some advice on which service to go with. Would you recommend Time Warner Cable or DirecTV”? I sat there looking at him for a moment, imagining myself just a few years ago asking the same […]
Planning To Have Kids? Don’t Buy That Minivan Just Yet
During the phase of my life where I was wooing my wife to marry me, several of my friends were already in the family-building phase. When your first child comes along there’s an incredible sense of excitement, anticipation, and discovery. I saw it in their lives firsthand, and now that I have a couple […]
Imagine The Freedom Of Owning A House With No Mortgage
If you hang out at this site for any length of time, you’ll find that I write quite a bit about housing, mortgages, and lifestyles. I believe that we can very easily set ourselves up for financial failure simply by setting unrealistic expectations, and then using debt to fund those expectations. Mortgages, for most […]
Side Hustling Lessons I Learned as a Guinea Pig
One of my first side hustles after I started working full-time was as a “healthy volunteer” i.e. guinea pig for clinical studies. My full-time job was as a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health, and right on the same campus were tons of opportunities to make money on the side by letting […]