Free Book Alert!
Just a heads up on a free ebook on side hustles! It’s called The Side Hustle Path: 10 Proven Ways to Make Money Outside of Your Day Job. I haven’t read it, but at the low-low price of free, what do… Continue Reading
Saving is Better than Earning
After the last few posts you guys deserve a rest, and this is going to be a short one. So here we go: saving is better than earning. There you go, lesson over. Oh, you wanted more? Ok, I’ll explain… Continue Reading
I Am A Judgy McJudgyPants!
And so are you! It always happens, I see or read something that I disagree with “Ooooh, they budgeted a vacation before paying off their credit card debt? I don’t know that I would make that choice…” and you’re off… Continue Reading
Post Frequency (Largely “In”)
This should be a short post, even from a verbose bastard like me. If you’re wondering what my eventual post frequency is going to be, I’m hoping to eventually settle down and post 1-2 times per week starting this week… Continue Reading
Ho-Lee Crap, is This A Bad Article!
So I was reading this article about FIRE, and wow is it awful! (After-the-fact NOTE: I don’t blame the author – read on, MacDuff!) Right off the bat, the author misses the point of FatFIRE and LeanFIRE – these are… Continue Reading
How the Heck Do You Make Money, Anyway?!?!?! (Part Two – Real Estate)
See last post for the first half of my momentous wall of text. To continue… Real estate is my other slightly more passive (theoretically) income stream. I say theoretically because the way I’ve set up this business is more labor-intensive… Continue Reading
How the Heck Do You Make Money, Anyway?!?!?! (Part One – Everything But the Real Estate)
This is actually a pretty complex question, and I’ll need to dip into the distant past a bit to explain. At the moment I have four income streams: Jobby-job/W2 income, collectibles income (Amazon, eBay, and Facebook), and real estate income.… Continue Reading
So, Whatcha Got? (Components of Update Categories)
I mean, yeah, some totals are fine, but what the hell is in those buckets anyway? Well, I’ll tell you. Not enough! But, while I’m working on that (full buckets are fun buckets – cheeeeeeeesy) I’ll break out a bit… Continue Reading
Update #3 – July 2018
This is the first of what will be many regular (maybe monthly?) updates. I’m planning to generally lead with the summary bullets and then follow with a bit of analysis (whining) or explanation (whining) about why my expenses went to… Continue Reading
Update #2 – June 2018
It’s pretty much a happy accident that this is six months into the year. (Would have been a happier accident if I’d actually launched this thing when I intended to.) I just happened to want to start writing the blog… Continue Reading