MY JOURNEY TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM AND EARLY RETIREMENT
Pursuing financial independence is a lot of fun. I really enjoy tracking my savings rate and making my monthly reports to see how my net worth is growing – and I am thrilled by the thought of not having to work for the rest of my life! Pursuing financial independence is also a lot of […]
This is a guest post from Eric Rosenberg, a finance writer at Personal Profitability, InvestmentZen, and other personal finance, technology, and travel publications. His sites are featured in my latest post on the fastest growing personal finance blogs of 2017. While I’ve never paid a cent of interest on a credit card or carried a […]
Three months ago I did a study on the best personal finance blogs of 2017 using the personal finance blog list from the Rockstar Directory covering more than 1,000 blogs. I gathered/scraped all sorts of data for all of the blogs to determine which of them were most popular. This post turned out to generate lots […]
Since I started my journey towards financial independence and early retirement last year (and this blog shortly after), I have managed to save $1,928 each month by making significant changes to how I spend and think about money. I have managed to increase my savings rate (the share of my take-home income that I put […]
Most of the readers of this blog probably do not have debt, but since you ended up reading this article, you probably have debt that you want to get rid of. If you are still unsure of whether debt is bad for you, check out my article on why debt is a personal emergency (!!). […]
As you know, a personal finance blog has to have at least one (hundred) article(s) on debt. I’ll start with dealing with what I consider the number one rule of debt: You should never have any of it. Period! … except, of course, some debt that you might need – more about that later. Why […]
Fellow MoneyMowers, Welcome to the Oscars of personal finance blogs (or perhaps just a simple garage study – call it what you want). I have made a list of the best personal finance blogs of 2017 – based on data. The methodology warriors amongst you will probably kill me before they have even see the list. […]
Things! Things everywhere! In this post, I will go through why you don’t need things and how you should think about things. I will also cover a few things you might need and alternative ways to get things. Most people I know have filled up their lives with too many and too expensive things. Their houses […]