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Most people don’t struggle with one bad spending decision—they struggle with patterns they don’t realize they’re repeating. What feels like “just this once” is often the exact habit quietly holding you back. The post The Hidden Cost of “Just This Once” Spending appeared first on The Budget Mom.
Sammie Ellard-King I’m Sammie, a money expert and business owner passionate about helping you take control of your wallet. My mission with Up the Gains is to create a safe space to help improve your finances, cut your costs and make you feel good while doing it. Share to Facebook _*]:min-w-0 gap-3″> Pensions minister Torsten Bell has confirmed that around 37,500 customers have been affected by an NS&I scandal involving up to £476m in deposits […]
Your friendly neighborhood blogger is a member of a few book clubs. One FIRE-/personal finance-related, and another not. We’ll call the latter The Normie Book Club . . . cuz we FIRE people are probly a bit nuts. One of The Normie Book Club’s members knows the author (we’ll call this person The Author) of a book we recently read and arranged for us to talk to him during our meeting. During our discussion, The […]
Many of us want to help our kids start on the right financial foot, and one of the best ways to do that is to give them their own debit card. You can open a child bank account with a debit card, monitor their spending, and even pay them an allowance using an app. A survey by The Zebra showed that 1 in 3 young adults say their parents were the biggest influence on their […]
Do you ever look back and wonder how our grandparents managed to live so well on so little? There were no grocery delivery apps, no buy-now-pay-later, no impulse purchases arriving on their porch every afternoon. Many lived through the Great Depression, rationing during WWII, or raised large families on a single income in homes much smaller than what’s “normal” today. Yet they made it work, and not only survived, but often thrived. It’s no wonder […]
Joe Liemandt is the principal of Alpha School and the founder of Trilogy Software and ESW Capital. Liemandt dropped out of Stanford to build Trilogy, made the cover of Forbes twice before thirty, became the youngest member of the Forbes 400, then vanished from public life for twenty-five years. But he didn’t stop building. Through ESW Capital, he quietly became one of the most prolific acquirers of software businesses in the world. Now he’s back […]
Earlier this month, my article The 60/40 Portfolio vs. The Bucket Strategy compared the two approaches since my retirement and generated a LOT of discussion. The Bucket Strategy outperformed by $241k, but was that an anomaly, driven by the abnormally strong market returns? To answer that question, and at the request of many readers, I’m doing the same comparison through The Lost Decade of 2000 – 2010, a decade-long period of poor market returns. As requested, […]
There are seven Nasdaq 100 covered call ETFs worth your time right now. One of them just delivered 28% in a single year. One is paying a 17% yield with Section 1256 tax treatment, and most people have never heard of it. And the fund that most income investors default to first? It came in … Read more
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Summary Welcome to our February spending post! This month, we spent a total of £2,484. This was a good month for us. With costs of everything increasing, it seems difficult to get our spending much below this level now. We’ve sorted our spending into the essentials—housing, food, and transport—plus a catch-all entertainment and miscellaneous category. As always, we’ll break down each area and give you the story behind any standout expenses. CategoryAmount Housing£409 Food£745 Transport£134 Entertainment/misc£1,196 Total£2,484
I am delighted to announce that the presale event for our newest books, Post-Punk Road Show and Rock ‘N’ Roll Zero: Singles & Rarities, begins on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14th! This is your chance to acquire these limited, special editions and collector’s packages before the general public launch. To create genuine value for this presale, those who get on board early have tangible benefits. Advance access to the books. All presale orders will ship nearly one […]
In this episode, I sit down with Drew Lee, a former engineer turned personal finance content creator, who made a bold decision to walk away from a six figure career more than once to pursue a life of flexibility and purpose. Drew reached Coast FI, where your investments grow on their own to fund retirement, in his late 20s, and shares how that freedom changed the way he thinks about work. We talk about the […]
In case you’re not on my email list: Hi friends! Spring is finally starting to peek out here in the mid-Atlantic. I can’t wait to get my bones warm and enjoy all the outdoors! Did you know that DoDEA offers an online program to help CONUS mil-kids keep up with high school educational… | Read More… The post Newsletter 24 March 2026 appeared first on KateHorrell.