Ahh spring!! Spring really starts to hit the Pacific Northwest when April rolls around. Things finally start to green-up again. It’s also the time of year when our weather starts to turn towards “dryer” and “slightly warmer”.
This is typically when I emerge from my winter hibernation, and start spending a lot more time outside…
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Have you noticed? The cost of a trip to the grocery store or hardware store has risen in recent months. This has the news media doing plenty of fear mongering about inflation.
To be fair, prices of commodities like corn, soybeans, lumber, and iron ore have all more than doubled over the last year. This is an undisputed fact, and certainly concerning…
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If you’re one of the many young people just starting-out on the path to financial independence (or even an older person just trying to catch up), the numbers can seem a little daunting. Using common retirement rules like the “4% rule”, a $1 million dollar portfolio can safely generate a mere $40,000 of income per year.
For many, this seems like a ridiculously small amount of income to earn from such a large amount of saved money. Perhaps you were hoping for a much larger income in retirement…
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When it comes to Japanese cuisine, most people will encounter it at their local Japanese restaurant. Serving up the classics like sushi, ramen, gyoza, miso soup, and edamame, most of these “Westernized” restaurants aren’t actually all that good.
Which is too bad, because Japanese cuisine is actually way WAY better than that.
Unfortunately traveling to Japan for some good eats isn’t possible, due to COVID-19…
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Don’t look now, but it’s time for another monthly update! Just like in previous months, I like to use this post to share all the niggly financial details of our life, as well as how much dividend income we’ve earned.
March was a fantastic month for a number of reasons. For one, March is when daylight savings time begins..
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If there’s one unsung hero of the personal financial world that needs a medal, I think it should be Hendrik Bessembinder. “Hendrik who?” you’re probably wondering…
Hendrik Bessembinder, is a professor from Arizona State University that researches and studies long-term wealth creation of the stock market. He studies the how part of how the stock market creates wealth…
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If you ever meet someone that says “I’ve never made a mistake”, I will happily point out to you a complete liar. Nobody goes through life without making at least a few mistakes.
The trick however, is to not make too many of them. Keep the numbers low (if you can). Do that and you’ll sail through life with relative ease…
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People can pick up and move homes for many good reasons. Sometimes it’s a job, sometimes it’s to be closer to loved ones, and occasionally it’s to retire to cheaper location.
This process of moving to ensure a wonderful retirement is commonly known as geo-arbitrage. It’s very common for retirees to move, and something the Tako family has been considering for quite awhile now.
Along with a cheaper cost of living, we’ve been looking for a nice, safe, quiet place to finish raising our kids…
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February is always an interesting month. Not only is it the shortest month of the year, but it’s also right smack in the middle of winter.
Like many other families living in the northern hemisphere, we received a giant blast of winter weather this February. We got “snowed-in”…
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