One of the many benefits of getting older is remembering experiences from earlier years. I remember buying my first car, at age 16, for $300. It was a 1966 VW bug with an air-cooled engine. I immediately set off to do the required maintenance work to the vehicle and add my own personal touches. The […]
Archives for March 2016
What Is a Mortgage, Really, and How Do I Get One?
I would like to share with you today a guest post of mine on Angry Retail Banker (ARB) from last month. The topic we decided on was reviewing the steps needed to get a real estate mortgage, from the perspective of those people that have never gone through the process before. ARB is an excellent […]
Goodbye Old Buddy; Say Hello to My New Friend
Since achieving some of our major financial milestones, we are beginning to see some changes around our household. Some of these changes include allowing personal finance magazines subscriptions to lapse and re-focusing our attention away from a debt snowball app. For the past decade, our goals had been focused on financial independence and retiring early. […]
Health: The last few weeks have been tough
We have been on a journey the last three to four months with selling our home, moving, remodeling, becoming debt free, and capping it of by going on a nice vacation cruise. I have continued to work from my home office while the various remodel and construction projects are under way. My wife and I […]
How We Upsized Our Cruising Experience (Hint: On the Cheap!)
We learned a few cruising experience secrets recently… the ones that “those fat cats on Wall Street don’t want you to know.” (I always cringe when I hear statements like that. It is usually some “click bait” trying to get you to read a sponsored site about a service you didn’t realize you needed—or even […]