All posts below are listed with the newest at the top. The earliest goes back to January 2020. Enjoy!
December 2024
November 2024
October 2024
September 2024
August 2024
July 2024
May 2024
April 2024
January 2024
- A $400000 Milestone Update: We Want Guac Turns 4!
- My 2023 Finances in Review
- The Cross-Country, $1000 Road Trip (and Move!)
November 2023
October 2023
September 2023
August 2023
July 2023
June 2023
April 2023
March 2023
February 2023
January 2023
November 2022
October 2022
September 2022
- Beat 80% of Investment Managers With This One Weird Trick
- Article on CNBC’s Make It: This 28-year-old is on track to save $1 million by her 30s: How she visited 7 countries in Europe—for just $2,800
August 2022
July 2022
- Article on Women’s Personal Finance: What If History Looked Different for Women?
- I Spent Less Than $3k on My Europe Trip, and Saved Over $2,600
June 2022
May 2022
- What Other Job Benefits Should You Look For?
- Lost $50k On Paper (And I’m Doing Just Fine)
- Article on Grow + CNBC: I went from making $15 an hour to a net worth of $275,000 in 6 years: Here’s how
April 2022
- A Tale of 3 Early Retirees: Their Ages at Net Worth Milestones
- Let’s Talk Dividend Stock. WTF Is That and Should I Invest in Them?
March 2022
- Self Advocacy in Finance: Take Care of Yourself AND Your Money
- Negotiating Working Abroad or Sabbaticals With Your Boss
- It’s Official: I’m Going to Europe for a Month
- The Skills That Make You Rich: Taking Care of Your Teeth
February 2022
January 2022
- My $10k New Years’ Resolution Update: Did I Get It?
- We Want Guac Turns 2! Or: The Toddler Years
- When Investing Gets Tough, Blow Your Portfolio a Raspberry
- My Money in 2021: The Biggest Everything Ever
December 2021
- The First Six Figure Salary, and How to Not Fuck It Up
- History Doesn’t Lie. Your Ancestors Are Pro COVID Vaccine.
- What a Mild COVID Case Feels Like When You Were Always Healthy Before
- My COVID Case Financials
November 2021
- When You’re Not Ready to Chase Financial Independence
- SWR (Safe Withdrawal Rate) for Dummies
- Are You Dividing By Zero?
October 2021
- Bad Market Returns? Ain’t No Problem Here.
- 5 Years Check-in: Half a Decade of Pursuing FIRE
- Your Guide to Flipping with Online Auctions
September 2021
August 2021
- Going Overboard (and Getting Burnout) in the Name of Financial Independence
- Guest post on Physician on FIRE: The Magic of Compound Interest
- Your Freedom is for Sale. How Much of a Discount Will You Get?
- A $250000 Net Worth Update!
July 2021
- Predicting the COVID Labor Shortage Impact, Part 2
- Update: COVID Economic Impact Did, In Fact, Have Historical Precedent
- Foraging in the City
- The Magic of Compound Interest, Revealed!
June 2021
- That Time Losing $50,000 Left Me Better Off
- Juneteenth is Official! Now Do the Same with Black Wealth.
May 2021
- Build a Diverse Skill Set, You Funky Badass
- A Tale of Three Dressers. And of Flipping Them Ruthlessly.
- The Financial Independence Milestones, Gamified
- The Ultimate Guide to Job Ads Tailoring: High Pay Job Part 4
April 2021
- A Fairy Tale of Financial Proportions
- Buying a Car for the First Time, The Finance Edition
- FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE IS A CONSPIRACY!!!!!!!
March 2021
- Your Ideal Salary or: The Number You Should Really Aim For
- After Being Poor, Your Financial Anxiety Remains
- When the Women in Your Life Join MLMs
February 2021
- What Is High Pay?
- The Most Common Bad Investment Decisions that Screw Millions Every Year
- My Biggest Investing Mistake? Not Starting Earlier
- A $200000 Net Worth Update: Oh, We’re on the Accelerated Path
January 2021
- We Want Guac Turns 1!
- The GameStop Short Squeeze, Financial Independence, and Other Related Matters
- Get Free Money from Banks and Make Them Pay You Hundreds
- My $10,000 New Year’s Resolution
- My 2020, Acknowledging I’m No King of Finance
December 2020
November 2020
- A Cheap Unlimited Phone Plan for $25/Month… And 4 Months Free
- Let’s Talk Financial Inequality
- Having a Small, Frugal Thanksgiving with Social Distancing Guidelines
- Behind the Scenes of a MarketWatch Minidoc
- Understanding Money Means Understanding What’s Enough
October 2020
- United States Income Tax Brackets, Explained
- Geographic Arbitrage is the Secret Agent Way to $$$
- Your Guide to a Frugal, Socially-Distanced Vacation that Actually Feels like Vacation
- A Love Letter to the FIRE Movement
- Understanding Investment Accounts: 401(k), IRA, HSA, and Taxable
- Blog Review: A Purple Life
September 2020
- How I Spent $20 on Frugal Wall Decor for a 2 Bed Apartment
- My Future is Bright, if You Don’t Destroy It First
- Bagging That First (Good) Job After College: A Winning Guide
- Job Scams Suck. Don’t Fall Prey to Them.
- How I Saved Over Half My Income on a $30,000 Salary
- The Difference Between Lifestyle Creep and Improving Your Life
August 2020
- This Ain’t Your Grandma’s Library
- You Don’t Need Both Eyes to Be King
- How to Evaluate the Best Investments Based On Returns
- How $50,000 in Student Loans Affects the Path to Wealth
- A $150,000 Update and Other (Plutus) Boons
- Resume Case Study: My Role Got Nuked in 2020
- Make a Happiness List to Send Your Finance Goals into Warp Drive
- The Mental Fog of Understanding Money: The Simplest Steps to Clear Skies
July 2020
- The Secondhand Market for Free Stuff Report: Still Going Strong
- Investing Basics: Choose Index Funds over Stocks
- Stretch Your Dollar by Preparing Frozen Food
- The Skills that Make You Rich: Real Estate Know-How
- Thoughts on True Poverty and the Path to Wealth
- Hacking a Marketing Career to Reach a 100k Salary
- How to Get The Most Out of College to Set Yourself Up For Financial Success
June 2020
- I’m Asking for a Raise After One Year of Work
- Personal Finance Done During Social Unrest
- THE FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE SONG IS HERE
- Why Politics and Race Need Discussion in Personal Finance
- #BlackLivesMatter with the Racial Wealth Gap, Too
May 2020
- How to Reach $100k Wealth on an Average Salary
- Part 2: The Downsides of Frugality
- Frugality’s Upsides and Downsides, Part 1
- What it Means to Have $100000 in Savings
- Preaching Financial Discipline While the World’s in Financial Freefall
- How I’ll Become a Millionaire, Even With a 0% Savings Rate
- Guest post on Government Worker FI: Working for Private Companies Versus the Government
- Finding Balance Between Charity and Financial Independence
- If You Really Want Wealth, Get Comfy with Being Weird
- Get a 50% Pay Increase with These Five Tips
- Grow Your Network in Isolation When You’re Not Allowed to Go Outside
- Guest post on Our Table for Two: Get Paid More Without Having Connections or Experience
- Resume Case Study: From College Administration to Government Analyst
- Your 2020 Job Search Needs a 1930s Boost
April 2020
- The Greatest Rulers in History Were Strategically Frugal
- Why 2020 Isn’t the End of Financial Independence
- Don’t Get Upset with the Realities of Privilege in Finance
- This Earth Day, Take Care of Your Crap
- Investing During a Black Swan Event
- When I Chose My Apartment, Money Was Just One Concern
- Side Hustling During the Plague: Your Top Five Concerns
- What to Consider When Considering a Side Hustle
- Losing Work Because of COVID: What Your Next Year Will Look Like
- The Quick and Dirty Investing Glossary: What All These Terms Mean
- What to Actually Do With Your Money in an Emergency
March 2020
- Working in Real Estate: My 9 Juiciest Insider Tidbits
- Less than Half of the US Can Pass This 3-Question Test. Can You?
- Why Money is the Least of My Worries
- The Long-Term Coronavirus Effect on the Economy
- Bonus vs. Salary Increase: One is Definitely Better than the Other
- Why a Pandemic Won’t Derail Your Investing
- Dreams and Goals and Money: Are Yours United?
- What Budgeting Tools Are Out There?
- How to Rewire the Bad Parts of Your Brain
- It’s All Relative. Don’t Be So Uptight About It.
February 2020
- The Emergency Fund, Revisited
- On Lucky Breaks and Technicolor Coats
- Use Fear Smartly
- The Skills that Make You Rich: Sewing
- A Guide to Thrift Shopping for the Future Rich
- Can You Go Car-Free? Maybe.
- Why I Don’t Own a Car
- What’s Better, Greater Income or Lower Expenses?
- How I Spend $125 a Month on Groceries
- The Skills that Make You Rich: Dieting
- The Least Disciplined Of All
- Owning Your Home: Do NOT Consider It an Investment
- Yes, It’s Time to Invest!!
- What You Shouldn’t Sacrifice to Reach Your Riches
- The Urban Advantage: Slews of Niche Events
- Are Your Anxiety Levels On the Rise? Survey Says it’s Due to Money
- Yes, Rich Privilege Plays a Role. Here’s How You Gain More of It.
- How to Hack Your Resume
- I’m Poor. Do I Really Need to Budget?
- The Inherent Dreams – and Possibilities – Fueling Financial Freedom
- Thrift Shopping is the Superior Way to Shop
- Budgeting Gives You Freedom, NOT Constriction
- How to Get Rich: There’s Only Three Things You Need to Do
- Free Furniture, or: How My Stuff Cost Me Less than $100
- The Skills That Make You Rich: Finance
- Need a Second Job? Get Creative.
- I Worked a Weekend Side Hustle. Here’s My Story.
January 2020
- Understand Money. Don’t Hurt Yourself.
- The Semester I Spent $100 on Groceries
- 11 Reasons Why I’m Stress-Free with Finances
- Is This Finance Stuff Right For You?
- Finances: The Choose-Your-Poison Horror
- Finding Work Opportunity in a Town Without It
- How to Get a High-Paying Job, Part 3: Talk to Recruiters
- How to Get a High-Paying Job, Part 2: Optimize LinkedIn
- How to Get a High-Paying Job, Part 1
- Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness
- My Year of Fear
- My Start Came with Temp Work
- Career Case Study: My Job Trajectory Through College and Onwards
- Where Did My Money Come From?!
- What Makes a Good Job a Good Job? More than Salary, For Sure
- You Want to be Thrifty, NOT Cheap
- What Helped and Didn’t Help Me Reach $100k at 25
- Share the Wealth
- You CAN Buy Lattes, But Only If You’re Mindful About It… with Budgets!
- My 2017, 2018, and 2019 Spending or: How I Learned to Love the Tax
- Tax Deductions, My Salary, and Pulling My Pants Down for the World to See
- Why Aren’t More People Talking About Finance?
- The Four Things You Need to Do Anything
- I turned 25 last year. My investments will leave me a millionaire at 60.