For those that follow this site, you probably know that I have recently taken up golf as a hobby. Why would anyone want to play golf you may be asking? Isn’t golf a good-old-boy activity? A carryback to the days of elite clubs that excluded everyone but rich white guys? There’s no disputing that golf […]
Spending
Stop Spending and Start Saving
It mostly goes without saying, no matter how much you earn, if you don’t save your money, you will never reach financial independence. If you’re like many Financial Slackers, you earn and you spend. So you earn more and then you spend more. You continue this pattern until one day you wake up and realize […]
How to Pay for College
If you have children, you have probably thought about how you are going to pay for college. And maybe you have taken it a step further and are hoping to not burden your children with crushing debt when they graduate and thus, you are wondering how to pay for college without loans. You might find […]
How Much Life Insurance Do I Need?
Let me start off by telling you what our financial planner told us years ago. Before you start talking about investing, you need to set up a will, an advance directive, and purchase life insurance. If you have children, this is even more important. At the time, my wife had just given birth to our […]
Essential Travel Gear I Never Leave Home Without
Having spent many years traveling for business and personal, sometimes on as many as 45 trips per year, I have collected travel recommendations that I thought I would share. After all this time in airports, I have concluded that the key to an enjoyable travel experience is flexibility. Planes get delayed. Weather forces a change. […]