When I paid off my student loans back in 2016, I found myself with a lot of cash that I could suddenly start investing with. Paying off debt is hard, but for the most part, the actual act of paying off debt doesn’t require a lot of knowledge. There’s no secret to paying off debt […]
Investing
Dollar Cost Averaging By Necessity
There’s an interesting thing that happens when you stop paying attention to what the market is doing . . . nothing. I gave up on following market news a while ago because, frankly, it made me way too angry. Every article would always be the same – some guy predicting a big market crash for […]
The Reverse Latte Factor – How You Can Side Hustle Your Way To Financial Independence
One of the things I enjoy about the current state of the side hustling world is just how easy it is to fit various side hustles into your day-to-day life. We live in a really unique time in history where it’s actually possible to piecemeal a few bucks here and there whenever you want. When […]
My Strategy For Longer-Term Savings Goals
A little while ago, I wrote a post that I called, “How To Afford Anything You Want.” As the name suggests, the thesis of that post was that anyone can afford to buy whatever it is they want – it just requires creating a few systems and taking a little bit of time to plan […]
Your Financial Advisor Isn’t Free And Probably Isn’t Warren Buffett Either
When my brother first started making a decent amount of money, I told him that the smart thing he could do was to save as much of his income as he could, live modestly, and invest his money in low-cost, passively managed index funds. I assured him that if he did all of this, I […]