Alex is in his late twenties working for a marketing firm. Last year he made a little over 55,000 dollars, an increase of $7,000 from the year before. He hopes to make over 60,000 dollars this year after bonuses. Alex dutifully goes to work every morning and consistently gets good performance reviews.
In the summer, my family and I go to the beach a good amount. We’re lucky to live about 25 minutes from the coast so it’s an easy drive to go to the beach for a few hours. With two little kids, my wife and I have a system where I drop her and the kids off right near the sand so they can set up while I go find parking.
I buy used books whenever I can. The books are almost always in really good condition, and come at half the price. Some books you’d never even be able to tell are used.
We all need to take a break and have fun now and then. Some call it a vacation, others call it a trip, travel, or holiday. Whatever you call it, we all need to hit the pause button on daily life and get away now and then.
We’ve all heard about the lottery winner going broke after 3 years. Or the celebrity declaring bankruptcy 5 years after their prime. Being successful with personal finance is really about the process. And a huge part of the process is creating healthy financial habits.
Lifestyle creep is arguably one of the biggest barriers to wealth building. It’s running in quicksand, spinning on the proverbial hamster wheel. Working hard every month but never getting ahead financially. There is one simple and easy way to avoid lifestyle creep that anyone can do with very little effort and time.
Over the weekend my wife and I took the kids camping to Anza Borrego State Park, about an hour and a half outside San Diego.
When people talk about money, they usually bring things up like budgeting, debt, retirement, interest rates, etc. Which are all important topics. Not too many
Leveraged debt. The very word strikes passion and controversy. There are two main camps: adamantly for it or against it. Very few people are in
I don’t know why, but the other day on the way to work I was thinking about this house that was listed in Pacific Beach
