There is nothing major to report for March other than I have finished my 5 mg dose and am starting 7.5 mg this week and will stay on 7.5 for 4 weeks then jump up to 10 mg. I’m excited about potentially losing more weight but also concerned about side effects. I won’t know until…
Category: Personal Management
A New “Guaranteed” Financial Crisis?
I’ve been spending most of my free time now on risk mitigation strategies because while most people go on with their day to day lives, they seem to be oblivious to growing problems with the financial system. CNBC had an interesting article entitled Treasury Secretary Bessent says White House is heading off a ‘guaranteed’ financial…
Zepbound: My Health Journey – February Year 2
I am a little late getting this post out because I went to visit my doc to talk about the weight loss situation. He has been monitoring my weight and he agreed that I have reached a plateau at 25 lbs lost. He suggested we bump up to the next level which I thought would…
I Dream of Minimalism But Society Impedes Me
Almost a year ago I wrote, Financial Regrets: Accumulating Junk, where I discuss the piles of stuff I have and since I wrote that post, we have been working hard to donate or trash salvageable items and purge the rest however for every step forward we seem to take a step back and I’ve been…
Zepbound: My Health Journey – January Edition
I am definitely at a plateau. I have lost about 25 lbs and that seems to be a hard limit for me right now based on my 5 mg subscription. I now intend on asking my doctor to bump me up to 7.5mg of Zepbound. I will try that for a month to see if…
Financial Regrets: Streaming Devices
I’m a bit of a tech junkie but one of my biggest tech financial regrets are all the streaming devices I have bought over the years. I have at least a half dozen Apple TV devices, half dozen Amazon Fire devices, Roku devices and more. At the time, each device fit a purpose and was…
How I Reduced Colds & Flu At Home
For 2025, I am keeping a tighter eye on my annual household operating costs. I’ve already put in an order for new HVAC filters for my home and those cost me about $50 for a pack of 6 but that’s not what this post is about but it’s related. The other HVAC expense I have…
How Much Money Is Needed To Retire?
One of the most annoying questions I see on websites like Finance.Yahoo.com ask something like, “I have $5 million dollars, can I retire now?” It’s an annoying question because the answer is always going to be the same: it depends. If you have a $100,000/month shopping habit, then $5 million may not be enough to…
Financial Gratitude: The Kindness of Strangers
I started a series on financial regrets highlighting mistakes and/or financial regrets I made over the years but as part of the new year, I have been doing some retrospective look at the positive things in my financial life and I had some memorable moments worth sharing. Washington D.C. I started my first real corporate…
Personal Finance Lessons From Older Americans
I attribute my personal finance success to essentially other people. Over the years I learned so much from people who had higher net worth, education and success than I had but I equally learned as much from people on the other end of the spectrum. I came across this video that shows some personal finance…