We just got home from five great nights of camping at Lake Pleasant. This location is quickly becoming one of our favorite spots to camp. The area has multiple campgrounds and sites that are quite different in their settings. You can camp right up to the water’s edge, in areas with million dollar views of […]
Today’s Article is Brought to You by My Hands
We have been a bit quiet on the Just One More Year blog here lately. I have also been absent from my regular comments on my friends and blogging community sites.My recent pneumonia and bacterial infection sapped my energy for weeks. Work with my employer has been busy with numerous new projects and goal setting […]
My Finely Tuned Spending Justification System
None of us is born with an instruction manual providing answers about how to live our lives. For that matter, even if we did have a manual, what would we do during those early years until we learned how to read? Many of us tend to spend our entire lifetimes trying to figure out the […]
Remember When Filling the Gasoline Tank Was a Budget Buster?
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 […]
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 […]
A Picture Can Be Worth More than a Thousand Words
For more than a hundred years, people have used the expression “A picture is worth a thousand words.” While the origin of the phrase isn’t entirely clear—it was likely an advertising slogan—the saying itself has staying power, because it’s true. Even a simple picture can tell a story. Professional photographers understand this concept and create […]
Guest post at Angry Retail Banker: Welcome new readers and subscribers!
Welcome new readers and subscribers! My recent guest post on Angry Retail Banker on the topic of mortgages this week piqued many readers interest in our personal journey to financial independence. Many of ARB’s readers visited this site and subscribed to receive future posts. Thank you. We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new […]