After I graduated college, I had to face reality. The days of part-time jobs, bunk beds, and sleeping until noon were a thing of the past. It was time to figure out my life. Only problem was, I didn’t know a thing about the “real” world. So I did what I thought was most logical [...]
Archive of posts filed under the lifestyle category.
Are you an account whore?
So the motivation for this post came from J’s post yesterday about about ING’s sub-accounts. I am a very happy customer of ING, especially after switching from evil Bank of America. I shamelessly promote ING to anyone that asks where they should keep their money. You’d think ING was paying me to say all these [...]
How dare you spend your money on fun things!
Money can be used in four ways. It can be saved, invested, gifted, and spent. Generally I focus more on the investing and saving aspects of money, but today I want to chat with you about spending. I’m not so interested in how much your grocery bill is or how much you spend on gas [...]
Financial unredo (yeah I made “unredo” up)
If you’ve been scoping PF blogs for a while, you’ve probably seen some posts realted to financial do overs. Ya know, a time in your life that you made a terrible financial decision and desperately wish you could rewrite the past. I thought today we could take a fun little twist on that topic and [...]
No difference between optimism and stupidity?
I love that people use optimism to excuse stupidity. I try to avoid being labeled a pessimist or an optimist. I much rather prefer to associate with the realists. I do consider myself a positive realist, which in my opinion, is significantly different than an optimist.
Wikipedia defines an optimist as one who generally believes that [...]
Bigger isn’t always better
I love when people say “Bigger is better.” I mean, we all know the popular Texan slogan “Everything’s bigger in Texas.” We are told we need to make a BIG income, so we can buy a HUGE house, with a LONG driveway, to park our EXPENSIVE cars in. Unfortunately, success is often measured by appearance [...]
It’s not what you make, it’s what you spend (seriously)
The proof is in the pudding suckers… whatever that means. I did some hardcore number crunching over the weekend and realized something: I’m totally stoked on my financial progress over the last 12 months. Sometimes I get so focused on what lies ahead, I forget to take a little walk down memory lane and reflect [...]
Boys rule, girls drool
Today is an epic day. I promised yesterday, that I would be stirring up a little controversy this morning. Well, hopefully I can deliver on that promise. The only catch is there are three other bloggers that are in on this action. Consider this the first PF “Battle of the Sexes”. My goal today is [...]
Being dumb is a good thing
I never really thought about it before, but being dumb is kinda awesome. I had a conversation with my financial analyst buddy about short term municipal bond funds. Twenty four hours ago I couldn’t have spelled municipal, but now I know a good chunk about them. I’m a tiny bit “less dumb” now because of [...]
Bring it on haterz
I still stand by my statement the other day “Personal finance bloggers are a pretty tolerant bunch.” That said, after Dr. Faith shared with me the comments on this Give Me Back My Five Bucks article, I’m learning that personal finance readers, may not be. Krystal bought a new car for $30k and received [...]
