Start here
- Change your financial life in one hour by boosting your 401k contributions and then using my direct deposit trick to save more automatically.
- Read the blueprint to early retirement/financial independence that I’ve followed to get rich over time.
- Set up your banking and automate it. Automate ALL of your bills while you’re at it, and get a better bank.
- Figure out your spending. This is the most important step to getting rich.
- After you’ve set all this up, estimate how much money you’ll need to retire.
- If you don’t have the time or interest to do this on your own, hire a great financial advisor.
- Measure your Financial Fitness with a 2-minute quiz
Saving money
- Now that you have a financial independence plan in your hands, here’s the four main ways I save more to speed up my financial independence.
- 10 more savings tips. Homeowner’s should remember to refinance when rates drop, and save money on garbage (literally.)
- Optimize your auto insurance
Saving for education
Saving for health care expenses
Investing
- There are only 2 investments that you’ll ever need and why index funds are the best.
- Understanding investing
- While I don’t recommend it, here’s a primer on investing in individual stocks
- What to do when the markets are going up and down a lot (spoiler: not much) plus some helpful perspective using the Great Recession of 2009 as an example.
- Ignore the financial media
Buying or renting a home
- Buying a home for the first time
- Even though I now own a home, I’m a big fan of renting, and did so until I was in my mid-30s, even though I could have bought. Make sure to save on your rent though.
Buying a car and getting the best value out of it
- How to save intelligently when buying a car
- Save money on your auto insurance
Insurance
- Introduction to how insurance works, and what to consider when buying it.
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance [Coming sometime; message me if you want it sooner!]
- Auto insurance
Health
- Don’t smoke, it’s bad for your wealth
- Hack your environment to live how nature intended.
- Intro to Medicare (65+ health insurance) [Coming sometime; message me if you want it sooner!]
Retirement
- Blueprint for retiring early parts 1 and 2
- How much money to you need to retire (early)?
- How to spend your investments in a way that you will never run out of money [Coming sometime; message me if you want it sooner!]
- Intro to Social Security [Coming sometime; message me if you want it sooner!]
Credit score
- How to improve your credit score, and why it matters [Coming sometime; message me if you want it sooner!]
Save money and have fun with DIY skills
- Start cooking more of your own meals [coming later.]
- How to make your own hard cider in 5 minutes with just juice and yeast
- How to brew your own beer [Coming sometime; message me if you want it sooner!]
- Easy home maintenance that everyone should be doing themselves [Coming sometime; message me if you want it sooner!]
- Easy car maintenance that everyone should be doing themselves [Coming sometime; message me if you want it sooner!]
Shopping and buying guide
- Intro to bourbon whiskey: America’s great spirit, and bourbon buying guide.
- The three kitchen knives you should have in their kitchen
Financial distress
- Lost a job, health emergency, fragile financial situation already made worse by something else? Here’s what to do when you are in financial distress [Coming sometime; message me if you want it sooner!]
- Really need to tap the equity in your home? Consider a reverse mortgage.
- Government benefits guide [Coming sometime; message me if you want it sooner!]
- Receiving unemployment benefits [Coming sometime; message me if you want it sooner!]