Save money by deferring spending There are a ton of ways to save money. You can literally spend years reading books and blog posts, using apps, talking to friends, family and financial advisors, creating “saving hacks” and coming up with obscure ways to save a few bucks each month. In a past post, I detailed … Read more
The bulk of my early childhood memories originate from my elementary school (Go Dragons!) It was a moderately sized, U-shaped building at the edge of a street at the edge of a town at the edge of a state. This building was the place I met my friends, learned some stuff and discovered sports. Of … Read more
As a reader of this blog, you probably know very well by now that I love putting myself through challenging experiments. I love starting with a theory, spending weeks or months changing my habits to test that hypothesis, then seeing how I come out on the other side. Some of these experiments, my wife loves…some she … Read more
The automatic savings app that uses an algorithm to save money that you won’t use.
There are certain things that I just know about myself. I lose sunglasses, I procrastinate on my taxes, my dirty clothes don’t always reach the hamper and I am not naturally great at saving money. The first three, I’m still working on. The last one, I am able to put systems in place that can … Read more
It started at our kitchen table. My wife and I decided that we would go into “grind mode” and spend a couple of years seeing how much we could possibly cut, save, earn, scrimp, steal…okay, that’s where we drew the line, but you get the point. A natural first step in our quest to reduce … Read more