Why I’m NOT Saving for Three Weddings
It’s a Thursday night and I’m helping the two youngest of my three girls get ready for bed. They are mostly on auto-pilot at this point—these two are 10 and 7—so I’m able to...
Category: Consumption Challenges
Beware! Stealth Lifestyle Debt Just Ahead!
Almost exactly ten years ago we were in the process of finding and buying our current house in the suburbs. At the time we were living in our first single-family home that we had bought...
Math Isn’t Subjective (And That’s a Good Thing)
In our hyper-consumption culture today there are a lot of people looking for excuses as to why they are NOT financially independent. These excuses allow the majority of our society that is financially dependent on...
Suburban consumption challenge: Kid birthday parties
Both me and Mrs. JF are the product of public schools, and the idea of spending $15-20k a year for a school to teach our kids basic arithmetic and reading was never an option....
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