Without further ado, these are my 13 goals for 2013: Financial Goals: 1. Save $2,700 in Roth IRA 2. Create a Boglehead-style, 3-fund portfolio (using ETFs) at a discount brokerage and invest at least $5,000 3. Travel somewhere that requires me to use my ... Read more...
Archives for December 2012
2012 Goals: How Did I Do?
The short answer to that question is: very poorly. But let's take a look - I accomplished a few things on my list: 1. Achieve and maintain $5,000 Freedom Fund - PASS! A summer school opportunity popped up at the last minute and made this one do-able. 2. Begin contributing ... Read more...
Exciting News!
This is just a quick post to announce some exciting news: I've been hired as a regular contributor to Quizzle Wire! Quizzle Wire is a personal finance and lifestyle blog, so I'll be writing about topics that most of personal finance nerds enthusiasts love to read about, ... Read more...
Four Signs That I’m Still A Recovering (As Opposed to RecoverED) Spendaholic
One of the tough (but also kind of awesome) things about personal finance is that there is really no "end point." Yes, there's an end to debt, but then you have to focus on saving and investing. And there's definitely no end point when it comes to saving and investing - you can ... Read more...
How Do You Feel About Being Forced To Save For Retirement?
It's no secret that the United States is facing a retirement savings crisis. In short, people are simply not saving enough. Scary retirement statistics pop up in headlines every day, but to me this is the scariest of all: over half of all Americans aren't saving anything at all ... Read more...
Breaking Up – It Hurts The Heart…And The Wallet
If you follow me on Twitter, you know that about a month and a half ago I went through a breakup. I don't write about my personal life very much on my blog, so I've kept it sort of quiet here but to say that I've been struggling over the past few weeks is an understatement; the ... Read more...
Sometimes I Wish I Could Go Back To Being A Regular Person
Sometimes I get really sick of being "into" my finances. Sometimes I just want to be happy that I have any savings cushion at all, instead of always feeling like it's not enough. Sometimes I want to stop thinking about saving for retirement, and start thinking about saving ... Read more...
Find The Opportunity
At the beginning of last school year I was chagrined to learn that I had been tasked with one of the most reviled administrative duties there is, at least in a high school: morning bathroom duty. Morning bathroom duty sucks. Like, seriously sucks. It basically entails standing ... Read more...
How Bad Of An Idea Do You Think This Is?
For the past four months, I've basically been treading water financially. Image credit: http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/ To be fair, my extra income opportunities have dried up and I've had a number of large expenses to pay for (a trip, car repairs, etc.). But my motivation ... Read more...