If catchy headlines have you itching to read “How I achieved FI in X amount of steps (X being less than 10)” in hopes that you can replicate those same exact steps, STOP, chances are you’re not going to copy someone else’s path to financial independence. Watching Creed – or Creed II, won’t turn you into Mike Tyson any more than watching The Founder will teach you how to … [Read more...] about The New Snake Oil
Condolences Don’t Pay Funerals
Tragedy. No eye in the room was dry and the voices were right at a whisper. All the people in the room had lost. The parents lost a son, the siblings lost a brother, others lost their baseball coach and I was part of the group who had lost a friend. Raul* and I became friends during kindergarten– which feels like yesterday, and now, gone way, way to soon. To complicate the … [Read more...] about Condolences Don’t Pay Funerals
178 Years To Save Your Way To $1 Million
Looking at the quarterly statement, I shake my head, disappointment mixed with a small sense of despair considering what could have been. You see, among the many great qualities Mother taught me, there are some moments which stand tall among the rest. There was the time she went to work in crutches after spraining her ankle. Off she went walking crutch-ing her way, half a mile … [Read more...] about 178 Years To Save Your Way To $1 Million
40 times rent, PMI and why I always carry an umbrella
Exiting my building it’s not long before you’re met with a barrage of trash roaming the seats. Plastic bags, empty potato chips bag, empty beer bottles and crumpled brown paper bags from the bodega makeup the carnage. Some residents have decided to bypass the hallway trash compactor in favor of throwing trash directly out the window. While this disaster is cleaned throughout … [Read more...] about 40 times rent, PMI and why I always carry an umbrella
Don’t make it difficult for me to spend my money.
There are few things that irritate me more than having to stand in line. It’s the reason why I still keep my EZPass years removed from the sale of my car. When I started traveling domestically and I saw how long the TSA line could become, I immediately paid the $85 for TSA Pre (no more removing shoes for me!). International travel introduced me to customs and immigration, and … [Read more...] about Don’t make it difficult for me to spend my money.