I have been paying my required mortgage payment plus 152% every month in an effort to eliminate my mortgage sooner rather than later. As COVID-19…
“Watching extended family members and friends lose their homes during the Great Recession had a profound impact on Jack Washington. … Washington began to realize…
I have written several posts about my goal to pay off my mortgage early. Like the family in my recent post, Pay Off the Mortgage…
When kids are little they are happy playing in the house or at the local playground. Those activities do not cost money. Parents of young…
In my recent post regarding temptations of 2019, I described how my “inner voice” made the difference in assessing good arguments on either side of…
In 2019, my major financial temptations were buying a new car for my wife, installing a swimming pool at our home or buying a home…
“Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory in psychology comprising a five-tier model of human needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid.…
“What gets measured, gets managed.” –Peter Drucker I have begun to measure my financial net worth (FNW) on a monthly basis. At the beginning of…
In August 2018, I posted Merry Christmas 2024! about a plan to pay off my mortgage early. As phase one of that plan, from August…
What is a polder? The Dutch word polder technically means diked in and drained low-lying land. For centuries, the Dutch have reclaimed land from the…