Weekend Reflections: Emotions and Money Last weekend, I went to a medical school alumni event. We were celebrating our ten year med school class of 2008 reunion. It was a beautiful event filled with many fond and happy emotions. I was reunited with four of my closest classmates. We are now practicing in different cities so it was great to catch up with all of them. After ten … [Read more...] about Weekend Reflections: Emotions and Money
Traveling With a Baby Ain’t Easy
Traveling With A Baby Ain't Easy Earlier this year I had some pretty lofty plans. I wanted to continue traveling the world and take our baby with us. Maybe we could take our baby to France. Perhaps the baby would do well on a cruise. Well, none of that happened. The furthest we've been able to travel to is Orlando for FinCon. And that wasn't exactly easy … [Read more...] about Traveling With a Baby Ain’t Easy
Make A Statement! — An Investor Policy Statement
Make An Investor Policy Statement With the stock market dipping down last week then rebounding shortly after, it shows us how volatile stocks can be. And it's easy to become emotional when following the ups and downs of market volatility. We all know that it's important to not be distracted by the noise, stay the course, and stick with your investment plan. But what if you … [Read more...] about Make A Statement! — An Investor Policy Statement
FinCon18 Budget / Buy Nothing Challenge September Edition
FinCon18 Money and Food Diary FinCon18 was a fantastic experience and by far the most costly expense of September. Thus, I'm adding to my usual buy nothing challenge update with a fun FinCon18 money and food diary. Housing, transportation, and food are generally the biggest living expenses for the average person or family. Expenses for FinCon18 were no different. In … [Read more...] about FinCon18 Budget / Buy Nothing Challenge September Edition
My Fantastic FinCon18 Experience
My Fantastic FinCon18 Experience FinCon18 was absolutely fantastic. For almost a year, I had been enthusiastically looking forward to FinCon18. I had read so many amazing articles about the FinCons of years past that the FOMO in me just had to check it out for myself. I was so excited that I purchased tickets early in the year just in time for the early bird pre-sale … [Read more...] about My Fantastic FinCon18 Experience
Weekend Reflections 9/24/2018: Baby, Food, Speaking, and Shoutouts!
Weekend Reflections 9/24/2018: Baby, Food, Speaking, and Shoutouts!I haven't really kept up with the Weekend Reflections series. But I really should. Amazing things happen every day. This is especially true when you have a little human baby living with you and growing up before your eyes! Speaking of which, I'll start of by talking about some of the milestones that our baby … [Read more...] about Weekend Reflections 9/24/2018: Baby, Food, Speaking, and Shoutouts!
How To Buy Nothing And Earn Thousands Of Credit Card Points
How To Buy Nothing And Earn Thousands Of Credit Card PointsWhat? Buy nothing and still earn thousands of credit card points and miles? How is that even possible? Frequent readers of my blog will notice an interesting dichotomy. On the one hand, I often write about frugality, minimalism, the buy nothing challenge, the buy nothing project, and conscious consumerism. Then on … [Read more...] about How To Buy Nothing And Earn Thousands Of Credit Card Points
Buy Nothing Challenge August Update
Buy Nothing Challenge This post is long overdue. It's already almost the middle of September and I'm finally posting the August update for the buy nothing challenge. Oh well, better late than never I suppose. August was a big month for a few reasons: We bought NO baby stuff We gave away more things than we bought It was my wife's birthday at the end of the … [Read more...] about Buy Nothing Challenge August Update
Is My Portfolio On The Efficient Frontier?
My Portfolio And The Efficient Frontier After publishing Gasem's guest post, I wanted to take a closer look at my investment portfolio to see if it lies on the efficient frontier. As you recall, the efficient frontier is the set of optimal portfolios that offers the highest expected return for a defined level of risk or the lowest risk for a given level of expected … [Read more...] about Is My Portfolio On The Efficient Frontier?
Our Crazy Rich Experience On Singapore Airlines Suites
Singapore Airlines Suites This past weekend, my wife and I finally had the chance to see the movie Crazy Rich Asians. It was the first time in years since we had seen a movie in the theaters. This is due to a combination of our frugality and having a young baby who needs our love and attention 24/7. Now that the baby is almost 6 months old, we feel comfortable leaving her … [Read more...] about Our Crazy Rich Experience On Singapore Airlines Suites