When you think about “the rich” and the people who constantly seek to be richer, it’s easy to picture someone like that polluting hog dude from Captain Planet. Most people don’t associate the pursuit of money with being “green,” and because of that, a lot…
A somewhat literal summary of Walden by Henry David Thoreau might call it a recollection of one man’s peaceful (and inexpensive) life in the woods of Massachusetts during the late 1840s — documentation of an uncomplicated world that’s long since past. But a book review…
I started college during the Great Recession, and I admittedly wasn’t very tuned in to politics or financial markets at the time. In the years leading up to that crisis and the recovery afterward, I was mostly focused on paying my bills and trying to…
When shopping for a camera, most people start by Googling around a bit. But if you've done that, you probably spiraled into a search loop seeing the same few brands and recent models recommended. So how should you narrow down which one of those fancy…
The year is 2021. You’re a happy Apple customer with a brand new iPhone 12. Your previous device was an iPhone X, which you managed to keep for nearly four years before replacing it. You look at your X and think, “Nobody wants this ancient…
It’s time to come clean: We’ve done a lot of unnecessary spending in the past year. It started last August, when we moved out of our perfectly good, paid-off condo in Gainesville, Florida, and bought ourselves a fancy beach home for $204,000 instead. Sure, we…
We’ve gone without live television for the last 11 years or so, but I recently installed a fancy antenna in our attic, and now we get a bunch of crystal clear local stations in high definition for $0 a month. Normally, I’d say that’s an…
Recurring costs eat away at your wealth stealthily, in bite-sized chunks that you don’t always notice. A cable and streaming TV bill of $100 a month could add up to around $130,000 across 25 years if it were invested in the stock market instead. “Cutting…
We're in the process of moving back into our home after a long time on the road, and it's proving to be one of our most tedious moves ever. All of our stuff was stored in our friends’ loft, which shielded us from the financial…
Can money buy happiness? The commonly accepted response to this question is a simple “no.” Most people seem to agree that because money is exchanged for material things, which can never fill a void in the human soul, spending your life obsessed with the accumulation…
