10 Financial Tips for millennials
By definition I am a millennial but I really don’t feel like one. Why? Because I was born in the early 1980s and have been working for over 10 years. Nowadays, people seem to associate …
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Ways to save money so you can invest for your retirement
The Ultimate Black Friday Survival Guide
The US Thanksgiving is around the corner. Many people associate Thanksgiving with crazy sales because of Black Friday. During this time, stores lower their prices to entice people to spend money and buy things. Every …
Why we decided to revisit our budget system before end of the year
We have been tracking our expenses since 2011 using an Excel sheet with 6 different accounts and different categories within each account. Thanks to having a budget/expense tracking system, our net worth has increased by 250% …
15 simple (and perhaps weird) ways to save money
How do we manage to find money to invest in dividend paying stocks when we are a single income family? Simple, by being frugal whenever we can. We are all about living frugally and trying …
Why your perception of expensive is relative
The word expensive is an adjective describing something that costs a lot of money. What does it mean by “costs a lot of money?” I believe the word expensive is relative. Because our perception of what …
Our financial independence assumptions
This article is inspired by Mark’s recent post on his blog where he revisited their financial independence assumptions. I have shared some numbers on this little blog of mine in the past like the Early Retirement/Financial Independence …