Syd at Retirement: A Full Time Job wrote a great post last week about mistakes she made on her way to early retirement. Like me, she retired in her 40s and blogs about her experience getting to and enjoying early retirement.
I’ve been intending to write a post about some of the big mistakes I made [...]
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This week’s Festival of Frugality was hosted by Living Almost Large. It is a clever edition with inclusion of some celebrities who are notably frugal. Some of my favorite frugal stories this week include:
The Iconoclast Investor: The Tiniest House on the Street
I’ve had a fascination with Tumbleweed Houses ever since I first learned about them, [...]
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I read a lot of books: books about finance, investing, frugality and thrift, money management, the psychology of money, you name it. If it involves making, saving, or understanding money, I’m in. Often when I read a book, I start out by thinking, “yup, I knew that already”. Or, “yes, of course [...]
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I’ve spent a lot of time lately thinking about fitting in. I live in the suburbs of a large metropolitan area, in a nice middle-class neighborhood. I don’t talk much with my friends about being frugal, about saving money or my desire for a simpler lifestyle, as I think it would fall [...]
I just finished reading the book Green with Envy: A Whole New Way to Look at Financial (Un)Happiness and want to share some thoughts about it. First I should say that I am fascinated by the psychology of money and what makes people spend vs. save, and the concept of “keeping up with [...]
