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…
Category: Financial Regrets
Financial Regrets: Kitchen Stuff
I love to cook. I have hundreds of spices in my pantry right now from all over the world. I also have kitchen stuff that’s now turned into a financial regret so here are some lessons from my mistakes for all the cooks out there. Pans Our family became a fan of Ozeri pans largely…
Financial Regrets: Retirement Travelers Thoughts
I enjoy learning from others successes as well as mistakes and financial regrets. One of my wife’s and I’s favorite YouTube channel that we watch regularly is Retirement Travelers. This is a couple that retired early and is now spending most of their time traveling around the world. A recent video by the couple talks…
Financial Regrets: FSA Account
One of my family’s biggest challenges are taxes. We often keep getting pushed into higher tax brackets and now we hover between 24% and 35% depending many different variables each year. To help drive down some of my W-2 income, I opened an FSA account this year and it has been the worst mistake of…
Financial Regrets: Poor Decision Making
Let me give you a scenario: You have a car that gets 15 miles to the gallon. The cost of gasoline is $3/gallon. Your favorite grocery store is 7 miles away and it takes you 15 minutes to get there. You go to the grocery store, buy a bunch of stuff then drive home. When…
Financial Regrets: Giving Money To Politicians
In my continuing series of financial regrets and some “lessons learned” the biggest financial regret in my life is ever giving money to politicians. This year is an election year and because I have given money to candidates in the past, I am now bombarded with requests via email, texts and occasional calls to send…
Financial Regrets: Accumulating Junk
When my wife and I got married we lived in a small one bedroom apartment. All of our possessions could fit comfortably in a space no bigger than 10ft x 10ft. When we were expecting our first child, we bought our first house which was a two story five bedroom house. When we moved in…