After a job change around 6 months ago, Mrs. AE FINALLY got access to her new companies 401K! Some people look forward to Christmas or vacations, I was looking forward to that magic date where we could start contributing more cash to a pre-tax bucket. It was seriously stressing me out and I’m sure that […]
Investing
FI Action Series: Tracking Your Savings Rate
Tracking your Savings Rate is a hotly contested topic in the personal finance space, the arguments have escalated beyond polite disagreement (barely). Which for PF bloggers is the equivalent of a bare-knuckle boxing cage match with no rules against crotch shots. Personally, I love using a savings rate. It shows how you are allocating your income […]
401k Benefits…..and A Sundae
Get the match. Get the match. For all that is good in this world, Get. The. Match. I see this advice at LEAST 5 times per week, and it’s good great advice. Please do GET THE MATCH. But I think it is putting an unusually large focus on one of the (if not THE) smallest […]
Can You Do 1% Better?
1% doesn’t seem like a big deal. Out of a dollar, it is a penny that you probably walk by on the street and don’t even think of picking up. A 1% price increase at the grocery store doesn’t stop you from bringing anything home. $10 on a $1,000 purchase, not going to raise any […]
Remember this when the inevitable happens
3 times in the last few weeks I felt like a podcast was speaking directly to me. I don’t remember the quotes exactly, but it was along the lines of “A lot of these Millennials preaching index fund investing and “long-term” investing have only invested in a bull market, we will see what they are […]
Personal Finance in 10 Quotes
I professed my love for time-tested investing advice from great minds in my previous post on market speculation and decided to expand it into an all out Quote Assault on Personal Finance today. This is the quick and dirty guide to my views on personal finance, aided with quotes that I may or may not […]
Rich Today, Broke Tomorrow
When I was actively trading, I looked at the financial news every morning to see what was going to influence the market that day. Now that I have matured (one of the only areas I consider myself “matured”) into a passive investor, I skip the doomsday predictions that once had me stressed out about short-term […]
