I watch a lot of YouTube videos and what I watch is mostly focused on investing, finance, taxes, or related material but I’ve noticed a disturbing trend lately some of the YouTubers I follow to be pushing what I consider to be gambling “investment” opportunities. Masterworks The first site I saw from a reputable YouTuber…
Category: Money Culture
Corporate Burnout & Golden Handcuffs
One of the reasons I started this blog back up after a very long hiatus was the fact that I had a growing sense of corporate burn out. I’ve written about my college days where I worked at pizza places doing a variety of crappy jobs but today I’m going to write about the other…
New Credit Card: $50k Limit!
Shhh….don’t tell Dave Ramsey this but I applied for a new credit card recently because it came with a fairly good sign up promo and when I got the card and setup the app on my iPhone, I was shocked to see it came with a credit line of $50,000! I’ve written about my strategy…
Monopoly (the game) & Life Lessons In Wealth Building
When our kids were young they loved to play the game Monopoly. Of course, each kid hated losing and hated having to depart with cash when landing on a property owned by someone else. Most of all the kids hated going bankrupt and losing the game. As I continue to grow my wealth and frequently…
The 10 Commandments of Personal Finance
I asked AI to generate a list of 10 commandments for personal finance and here is what it generated. The Ten Commandments for Personal Finance Thou Shalt Budget Wisely: Create and maintain a budget to track your income, expenses, and savings.Thou Shalt Live Within Thy Means: Spend less than you earn to avoid debt and…
Did Boomers Steal Wealth From Millennials?
I came across this captivating and intriguing Ted Talk by Scott Galloway entitled, “How The US Is Destroying Young People’s Future” and Scott pulls no punches in his assessment of the plight of young people. I’m not sure how I feel about the whole thing. I am fully aware that young people have a much…
It’s Not High Income That Makes You Rich
I got into a discussion with someone this weekend over how to get rich. His point is that it’s super easy to get rich when you have a high income such as anything over $100k per year but I don’t believe that’s the case at all and I found two cases to prove my point….
Financial Regrets: Chicken & The Egg
My mother has chickens at her home. I asked her why she got the chickens and she said it was because eggs were too expensive at the grocery store. Of course, she only wants the organic farm free range well cultured chick eggs and since that variety cost is high she decided that she would…
The Gold Bugs, Like Cicadas, Are Out of Hibernation
In case you didn’t know, billions of cicadas are supposed to be out and about this year and coincidentally so too are gold bugs out touting now is a good time to buy gold! There are also reports that Costco keeps selling out of gold bars in minutes as soon as they go on sale….
Endless PF Debates, Wrong Context
As I mentioned in my post, Do You Have The Right Personal Finance Community, I wrote about how I spend a great deal of time surrounding myself with like minded investment class people and while that has helped me learn and grow it doesn’t come without some aggravations. Those aggravations are in the form of…