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Stockpile Review: Gifting Stocks and A Free $5 to Start (No Purchase Necessary)
Not too long ago, Becky and I were invited to our nephew’s first birthday party back in Chicago. While we weren’t able to make the trip back home, we did want to send a gift but didn’t want to go with...
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How to Hack Your Mortgage Into A High Interest Savings Account
If you happen to follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed I was recently looking into different HELOC options. The first lesson I learned was to never give a real phone number to LendingTree when...
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Unison Homeowner Equity Access is Probably a Terrible Idea!
While researching different ways to access home equity for my last post on hacking your mortgage into a high interest savings account, I came across an interesting company I hadn’t heard of before....
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New Podcasts and How to Support Money Metagame
Hello loyal readers! This will be a quick post to let you know about a couple podcasts I recently appeared on and a new page I set up to make it easier to find the links that help support this site....
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The Case Against Front Loading Your 401k
One common piece of advice I often hear in the financial independence community is that you should front-load your 401k and max it out as early in the year as possible. Unfortunately, for most people...
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Stacking Discounts To Save Over 40% on Regal Movie Tickets
I’ve previously written about many different ways to save money going to the movies, but this time I thought I’d dive into a specific example that lines up nicely with the latest 5% back category on...
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2017 Mid-Year FI Report Card: Things Are Going Quite Well
We recently crossed the half way point of 2017 and I thought this would be a good time to dive into the status of our financial independence (or FI) journey. Not to long after starting this blog a...
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Crazy Thought: What If We Took a Gap Year?
While Becky and I have been saving aggressively for the past few years with financial independence (FI) as a goal, we’re still several years from being able to walk away from work completely. Despite...
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Guest Post: The Ultimate Credit Card Rewards Hack
Today, I wanted to share some great content from my favorite blog written by an accountant: The Wealthy Accountant! It’s not a traditional guest post in that Keith wrote it specifically for this...
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That Time I Found $71 on the Internet
Just over a month ago, I was logging into Credit Karma to check my current credit score estimates and noticed a targeted message on the login page: “We found $71.40 that might be yours, Noah”. At...
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The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the New FIRE Prowess Gauge
Not too long ago, I stumbled across a new financial metric created by a fellow blogger, The Green Swan. This “FIRE Prowess Gauge” promises to be universal to everyone and balance out any differences...
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Have You Checked Your Tax Withholding Lately?
Can you believe there are less than 3 months left in the year?!? The year seems to be accelerating to a close for us, probably because Becky and I have been so busy getting our house in order to...
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The Plan For Our $450 Annual Fee Chase Sapphire Reserve Cards
Just over a year ago, Becky and I were both approved for shiny new Chase Sapphire Reserve (CSR) credit cards. Each new card came with a hefty $450 annual fee (not waived), but that fee was offset by a...
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Stop Setting Annual Net Worth Goals!
Goal setting is one of the most powerful tools I’ve found for achieving results in almost every aspect of life. Having a specific objective is helpful when making decisions and tracking progress...
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Reviewing Our 2017 Expenses
I can’t believe we’re barely over a month into 2018! Becky and I have been extremely busy over the past month traveling and preparing for our Gap Year adventure, but the trip has officially begun....
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Existing Debt is a Sunk Cost
One of the largest contributors to fishy accounting and sub-optimal financial decision making is debt. This applies to all kinds of debt and whether or not you consider it to be “good debt”. I’m not...
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The $1,000,000 Road Trip
While we are diligently tracking spending during our Gap Year Adventure, there is one significant item we haven’t touched on yet: Opportunity Cost. If you haven’t heard, my wife and I recently quit our...
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Gap Year Spending Month 2 – $3,555.27
We currently find ourselves 2 months into our Gap Year Adventure! The month of March started out in Arizona and ended up in western Texas, so we saw plenty of desert in-between the bigger cities. One...
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The Ultimate Movie Theater Discount Hacking Guide
Updated on 04/12/2018 There are a lot of different ways to save money in life, but it usually boils down to one of three different ways to reduce costs. The first two involve either cutting out the...
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Choosing the Perfect Early Retirement “Income”
Let’s imagine you find yourself in the fortunate position of no longer having to work for money (a.k.a. financial independence). If you managed to achieve FI early enough in life, you might have...
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