Listen, Money Matters!

I understand, managing your money can be really time consuming and you’re just not that into it.  Between trying to live life and taking care of your family, playing with numbers can be unexciting and low on your priority list. It’s ok to admit that managing money doesn’t excite you and the good news is that it doesn’t have to be exciting for you to be successful financially.  It use to be that you had to sit down at your kitchen table with your checkbook, a pencil and a glass of wine and work the numbers all night.  Now there are a ton of amazing tools on the internet that [...]

Money is a terrible thing to waste and chances are you’re wasting money yourself and may not realize, I was too until recently.  Maybe you’re paying for HBO and never watching it or you signed up for the Dollar Shave Club and you’re not using your blades.  Whatever it is, you gotta find these leaks and stop them! Saving money is really important and the easiest savings you’re going to find are when you stop paying for things you don’t actually want or need.  When you plug your spending leaks it could feel like you just got a raise! Plugging leaks is just a way of optimizing your spending and [...]

You work hard and you want to play hard too.  I’m right there with you and personally I think taking an awesome vacation is the best reward for working hard all year-long.  Traveling has always been very important to me and I’ve been very lucky to have been able to take many vacations and live abroad with my family.  Throughout the years my family and I have developed a few tricks which we’ve used to save a ton on travel expenses. I find it especially easy to overpay on travel so I’d like to share a few of our tricks to help you save.  Since you’ve already committed to spending [...]

Sure we are trying to save money but we all have something we really need or want.  Sometimes we want really small things like a new pair of work shoes or an iPhone and sometimes it’s big stuff like a wedding, new car or a house.  Depending on your financial situation there may not be that much room to go out and buy it.  The next best solution to buying it in cash is to save small amounts of money over time or setting a goal for your big purchase. Once we’re actually saving a little bit of money each month, it becomes really hard to track our progress and how [...]

Look, you’re going to want to have a nice night out once and awhile.  It’s always a fun time and you work really hard so you deserve the occasional treat.  Problem is, eating out is really expensive so if you’re trying to retire early like I am then these extravagant nights set you back.  The thing is, they don’t really have to.  You should always save when you eat out, you’re date will think you’re savvy!  Here are a few tricks I’ve found help you slash the cost of dinner so you can go out more often and feel less guilty about it.   Save Before you Walk in the Door While [...]