What’s that? Another new all-time high? Lately, investors have been cheering plenty of new all-time stock market highs. With the S&P 500 rising 22% year-to-date, they would seem to have plenty to cheer about. It’s been a very good year for stock investors.
In fact, the last decade has seen nothing but new highs every few months. Regular as clockwork. It’s hard NOT to feel good about the returns…
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To the uninitiated it might seem like a blogger who reaches multi-million dollar status before turning 40 must have had a perfect financial track-record through life. No financial mistakes made…ever! Right?
This is hardly the case. In my lifetime, I’ve made LOADS of serious financial blunders! Almost too many to count.
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The Tako family had a rough day on Tuesday. We lost a soldier in our battle against household spending. After six long years of faithful service my cell-phone died on Tuesday morning. It did so with very inconvenient timing. I use my phone as an alarm clock, and that means when the phone died my morning alarm did not go off.
Yeah, I know — first world problem.
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When most young men and women start out in the workplace, they typically start at the bottom. The very bottom. Scrubbing toilets, cleaning floors, and taking on the most tedious boring work. They usually do the all the menial jobs that their more experienced elders wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot pole.
These junior workers are (of course) loaded down with student debt, and own very little in the way of assets…
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What? September is over already? When did that happen? Time really does fly! Unlike last month, the Tako family spent our September primarily at home. School started back-up and Tako Jr. #1 began the first grade!
Now that I don’t need to be watching the kids all day, I took advantage of all that extra time…
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If you spend any time around the personal finance “blog-o-sphere”, you’re bound to encounter dozens if not hundreds of articles extolling the virtues of spending less and saving more. You’re also likely to have heard the message that “anybody can reach Financial Independence” if they really put their mind to it and save 50% or more of their income.
Lately though, I’ve started to change my mind about some of these core messages…
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Something been on my mind that I need to talk about. It’s been on my mind for awhile now. The question has been bugging me for over a year — Should I “go public” with this blog and reveal our true identities for the world to see?
Or, should I remain completely anonymous and protect our true identities?
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Do you keep a summer reading list? Bill Gates sure does. Every spring he publishes his summer reading list for the world to see. I usually take a look at it every year to see if there’s some books that interest me.
Like Gates, I’m a big believer in reading and continuous self education. Whether you’re a billionaire or a mere millionaire, reading is one of the most important ways any human can learn and grow…
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If you’re a regular reader of my monthly expense reports, you might start to believe that our monthly budge is super optimized and hyper-efficient. It’s a total illusion. The reality is, we’re NOT super optimized.
Our lifestyle is nowhere near 100% efficient or optimized for maximum savings. We do this by design…
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