extreme frugality

I believe that the younger Americans in their 20s and 30s are more focused on quality of life versus previous generations.  As such, these individuals value experiences, value their time, and value the possibility of early retirement. With market crashes, high unemployment, bankrupt social security, underfunded pension plans, and more ugly economic factors, the possibility [...]

Financial independence is a term typically used to describe a state where you have sufficient assets to live a certain lifestyle indefinitely without having to work or be employed.  Whether your income is derived from interest on savings, investment income, real estate income or something else, it really doesn’t matter.  The key is that you’re [...]

Today, I’d like to share with everyone blogs that I read and think you should check out.  For each blog, I will provide details on what is great about it so that you can understand better which blogs might be best for you.  I hope that the following blog recommendations will help you find additional [...]

Last night, I was scanning through various submissions at PF Buzz and stumbled upon two articles that I liked. In short, I agreed with one, but not the other — interestingly enough, both of them mentioned Robert Kiyosaki. Invest With The Best The first article was “Which is Better – Diversify or Focus Investments” at [...]

I have a secret desire to be a professional financial planner one day (well, now it’s not so secret anymore). Of course, this would take me in a completely direction from my current career. Because of this desire, I jumped at the chance to interview Ciaran McKeever of Chance Favors who is a Certified Financial [...]

When I started Moolanomy last July, I didn’t expect this level of success. I could fool myself and say that it’s due to my amazing intellect and superior command of the English language — but that wouldn’t be true. Actually, I am quite glad that so many of you stick around to read what I [...]

Happy New Year! and welcome to the New Year Edition of the Festival of Frugality: “A blog carnival focused on the frugal life and getting that little extra edge out of the products you buy and the services you use.” Considering the holidays, there were quite a bit of submissions over the past two weeks. [...]

As you can see, I have adjusted my sidebar a little and split it in two halves — I hope you like the new design. I wonder what the original template designer think about all the changes I have made so far. I will be hosting the Carnival of Money Stories #33 on November 6th, [...]