How to Withdraw Retirement Funds Early
Using the Roth conversion ladder to withdraw retirement funds early and without penalty is a popular strategy of the FIRE movement. While we are not calling ourselves FIRE, a lot…
Is the AMEX Platinum Worth the Annual Fee?
As a (more actionable) follow-up to the beet story, this post will share how we crunched the value of one card that we have in our wallet, the $695 annual…
Maximize the Target RedCard Offer for $320 per couple
**UPDATE: This offer is expired, and it has since been weakened (no ability to use in-store, and online). It should come around again eventually, though** There is $40 Target RedCard…
Stay in an overwater villa in the Maldives for free
In our last post we shared how we scored round-trip business class flights for two to the Maldives for $800. This post will share how we stayed in an overwater…
Fly your wife business class roundtrip to the Maldives for $800
What if I told you that you could fly you and your wife to the tropical, secluded island nation of the Maldives while enjoying the ridiculous treatment of the business…
A Post About Work
This post about work begins with our most recent car shopping experience. As we shuffled around the lot, fiddling with keyless entries, automatic seats, and motion sensor tailgates, we got…
Using Credit Card Travel Rewards
The fun part of managing your money responsibly is... spending it! For many, including us, traveling to new places is one of the highlights of each year. Sometimes those are…
Taking a Vacation During Debt Payoff
We were a month and a half into paying off our 80k of debt. For the first time, my wife and I were analyzing all our spending, trying to eliminate…
How to Estimate your Taxes – 5 Things We Wish We Knew
So far we've written about the kind of things we all spend our money on - housing, transportation, food, the usual. What we haven't posted about yet though is the…