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Money and FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early)  are the name of the game, right? I was drawn to the FIRE community because I’ve pretty much been living my life this way for quite a while now.  Probably since I

Jim P December 20, 2018December 21, 2018 Most Recent Posts, Retirement planning, Saving, Spending No Comments Read more

The growing value of your time

When I wrote my post a few months ago about the benefits and savings I could extract from “Moviepass”, I was overlooking an important part of this as an investment. My own time. I’ve been guilty of this before, in

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MoviePass extends the man-cave

MoviePass extends the man-cave

Let me slip out of these wet things and into a dry martini You could say I’m a movie head.  I own over 1,500 DVD’s and have written about how I’ve consolidated them to take up less space. The frugal

Jim P March 29, 2018May 2, 2018 Frugal tips, Most Recent Posts, Saving, Spending, Technology 3 Comments Read more

Is the sharing economy derailing your budget?

Sharing economy

Sharing economy friend or foe? I’ve been wanting to try Uber Eats for a while now.  I don’t even use Uber, or I might have used it once or twice in the past. However, every time we’d drive or walk

Jim P March 21, 2018April 1, 2018 Frugal tips, Most Recent Posts, Saving, Spending 2 Comments Read more

Breaking up with Amazon

Breaking up with Amazon

Breaking up is hard to do After 17 years of being a loyal customer, Amazon booted all of my reviews from their site, and blocked me from writing any new reviews on products. They gave some vague reason that I

Jim P March 7, 2018March 7, 2018 Frugal tips, Saving, Spending No Comments Read more

The incredible shrinking budget

Incredible shrinking budget

Sometimes it’s about the tools you use When I built my Ikea kitchen all by my lonesome, the best investment I had made was purchasing 3 small clamps.  They are similar to these. Wow, what a difference they made.  These

Jim P January 17, 2018January 17, 2018 Frugal tips, Saving, Spending No Comments Read more

Remembering your early financial life

Remembering your early financial life

The good old days weren’t always good What is that saying? You’ve gotta know where you’ve come from to get where you’re going? Well I had a little flashback this weekend, when collecting some paperwork for my home equity line

Jim P January 6, 2018 Finance, Frugal tips, Retirement planning, Saving 4 Comments Read more

What I learned about finance from RUSH

Neil Peart

Hidden talents You probably didn’t know this about me, but I’m an AMAZING Air drummer.  Yup. You heard that right. Air Drummer. In High School, I had a friend, who has since passed away from testicular cancer, who actually was

Jim P January 4, 2018January 4, 2018 Finance, Retirement planning, Saving, Spending 2 Comments Read more

Collecting can trigger irrational buying

Collecting things can trigger psychological purchases

Certain personality types are susceptible to spending I used to work for a publishing house and never realized that one of the strategies of publisher’s is to get people to build their “collection”. My old boss was a genius.  He

Jim P January 3, 2018 Frugal tips, Saving, Spending No Comments Read more

Picking a financial steward in the age of blended families

financial steward to trust

Keys to the castle You know what keeps me up at night? Not if I’m going to run out of money or not. I’m pretty sure I have that covered. What keeps me up at night is who will manage

Jim P December 27, 2017December 27, 2017 Finance, Retirement planning, Saving, Spending 2 Comments Read more
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