Four major trips have taken me across the globe, and I didn’t pay full price for a single one of them.
4 Ways I Traveled The World For Free
Sunday Sharies: Volume 9
Sunday Scaries (n): The Sunday evening dread that creeps in when anticipating work in the morning. Shut down Sunday Scaries with this new series: Sunday Sharies! These are the articles, links, and content I’ve read this week that I think are worth sharing. FIRE Articles How To Talk To Your Partner About Money… When They’d […]
How To Be Preposterously Creative in 4 Simple Steps
People keep asking me how to stay motivated, and how to keep coming up with new ideas. I think the question really boils down to: how can I be more creative? Not just that, but how can I be preposterously creative? The type of creative that has people laughing, sobbing, thinking? It’s quite simple really, here it […]
The Sunday Sharies: Volume 7
Sunday Scaries (n): The Sunday evening dread that creeps in when anticipating work in the morning. Shut down Sunday Scaries with this new series: Sunday Sharies! These are the articles, links, and content I’ve read this week that I think are worth sharing. FIRE Articles We Bought a $90,000 House. And Yes, We’re Moving In. […]
5 Crazy Things I’ve Done To Save $300,000 by Age 26
Here are 5 crazy things I did to save like crazy in my twenties.
Independence with a Side of Meatballs
I’m sitting in the middle of the kitchen floor in Spain, bent over a jar of spaghetti sauce. For the life of me, I can’t get it to open. I twist until my fingers hurt. I try to use a tool with a rubber grip. I run the lid under warm water. My roommates are […]
8 Books To Review – A Summer Reading List
Summer is my favorite season for reading. I will grab my book, a blanket, and some sunglasses and head outside to read for a couple of hours. This was my set up this summer. In the last couple of months, I’ve read 8 books. None of them are finance related, but I thought I would […]
The Sunday Sharies: Volume 5
Sunday Scaries (n): The Sunday evening dread that creeps in when anticipating work in the morning. Shut down Sunday Scaries with this new series: Sunday Sharies! These are the articles, links, and content I’ve read this week that I think are worth sharing. Finance Articles Have I really got enough funds to retire (Ms ZiYou) […]
Money Diaries: A Week in Portland, OR
Originally posted on : November 1, 2018 Ever wondered what a day in the life of a software engineer living in Portland, Oregon could look like? This is an uncensored play-by-play of every day of my week, including every dollar I spent. Occupation: Software Engineer Age: 25 Location: Portland, OR Monthly Expenses Rent: $930 Living: ~$570 401(k): Maxed out HSA: Max out on […]
The Benefits of Living Life on ‘Hard Mode’
“You live life on hard mode,” my coworker teased. We were out on our morning walk before heading into the office and as usual, I had just regaled him with a tale of one of my misadventures. Over the next year, it became a running joke. I described the mess in the kitchen as I […]