The Impact of Saving More Money

This guest post was written by Jake Thompson at Moolamind.com. Thanks Jake for helping me out during tax season! Drip…drip…drip. That’s the sound of your leaky faucet. No worries though it’s only 1 drop of water every second or so. But check this out, 1 drop of water every second can add up to 165 gallons a month. That’s more than the average person uses every two weeks. No problem though right? All you have to do is twist the knob and the leak stops – a quick and easy fix. Unfortunately, changing the way you think about finances isn’t quite as easy. Paying Interest – A Lifetime Leak According to creditloan.com, the average american will spend over $600,000 in interest over their lifetime. That’s one leaky faucet. If you were simply able to save what most people spend in interest, you would have more in your retirement account than … Continue reading

You Didn’t Save Any Money

If you buy my thing, I will hand you this stack of cash. But not.

I rarely listen to music anymore. I’m not sure if it’s just that I’m becoming an old man (I’m a ripe 27, for gosh-sakes! Can’t keep up with these young whippersnappers!), or that my brain couldn’t process any more Autotune coming through my ears without imploding. Whatever the case, I listen to a lot of talk radio. And it’s funny, the commercials are definitely geared more toward upper middle class citizens (mortgage ReFi, life insurance, investments, that kinda thing), but all the commercials have the same message. “How much money can we save you?” Most of them are fine (heck, I was motivated to refinance my mortgage because of some of them), but some are just plain stupid. One particularly annoying commercial talks about getting a degree or some crap at on online school. Their big pitch is about all the money you will save when going there (surprise). But … Continue reading

How I Saved $300,000

Best hiding spot in the whole house!

Have you ever had a day where you TOTALLY ROCKED at money? Like, you found a 50% off coupon on a product that was already buy one get one free, purchased the floor model for another 40% off, then slipped and fell into a pile of $100 bills on your way to redeem your $5,000 winning scratch ticket?!!!! Yeah…me neither. But last night, I had the most epic win of all time. I saved $300,000 in one night! Our House Almost Burned Down For the second time in the past few months, we had an appliance “act up.” Normally, this might be an issue, but since we’ve got a sweet emergency fund in place, these so-called “emergencies” turn in to nothing more than minor inconveniences. Well, at least financially. Practically, they can definitely be a bit stressful. Two days ago, my wife was being awesome (I mean really, when is … Continue reading

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