When I see personal finance blogs writing about abundance, they’re usually talking about abundance in the context of “There’s a huge abundance of money in the world!! Go out there and start a side hustle to capture some of that abundance!”
Which is completely preposterous when you think about it — money is simply a method of transferring value. Managing the money supply is one of the primary jobs of the Federal Reserve…
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Sometimes when inspiration hits for a new blog post, it comes from very strange places. Today’s post was inspired by an odd one — I took a trip to the DMV. Yes, really — the DMV!
Turns out, my drivers license was about to expire. I needed to make a trip to the nearest DMV office to get it renewed. Oh bother! The problem is, I don’t live anywhere near a DMV office. The nearest licensing office is a 30 minute drive away!
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I wish I could say, “I like Winter.” But if we’re being totally honest with each other, I really don’t. Not even a little bit.
Our little corner of the Pacific Northwest had 28 days of precipitation in January (out of a possible 31). That’s 28 days of measurable rain and snow under a blanket of dark clouds. Woohoo!!
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Normally I don’t wax poetically about my childhood here on this blog. But for today’s post, I’m going to need to drop a little background in order for you to understand. I’m going to share a few choice tidbits from my past life.
While most children in my same era (the 1980’s and 90’s) grew up in the safe suburbs of clean and prosperous cities, I most certainly did not.
Without giving-away certain details that might give-away my secret identity, I can reveal…
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Yep, it’s another investing ideas post! It’s been several months since I last posted one of these ideas posts, but I have forgotten you guys! I know how popular they are!
I’ve just been really busy. Honestly! With the holidays behind us, and my old car finally sold (yes it sold!), I’m feeling like I finally have time to sit down and start digging into some juicy annual reports!
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In past episodes of Mr. Tako Escapes, I’ve written rather incessantly about the difficulty of trying to predict the future. Even though it would be exceedingly handy to predict future stock market movements, most humans have no ability to predict the future.
Despite this, many people try — They gamble hard-earned money on the speculative investments in the belief that the investment will become “The Next Big Thing”. Sometimes they win, and sometimes they lose…
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Passive income. It’s the El Dorado of the financial independence world. Everyone wants it, and everyone thinks they know the best way to find it. Some people swear by rental properties, others invest crowd funded real estate projects. A few even manage to find it by investing in stocks and bonds.
Passive income (as you might expect) isn’t easy to find…
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“Houston — We have liftoff!”
While 2018 was a rather ho-hum year when it came to stock market returns, 2019 was an entirely different story. 2019 was like being tied by the ankles to a rocket ship, and then getting launched into the atmosphere at 18,000 mph. It was a wild ride…
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Oh what a difference a month makes! Back in November the Tako family was blowing the doors off our regular monthly budget due to the purchase of a “new to me” car. Weak dividend income in November didn’t exactly help our cash-flow situation either.
December was a complete turn-around story however. It marked a return to normal spending and a chance for our cash to replenish itself with a very dividend heavy month.
How great was our December? Read on to find out!
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