From my family to you and yours, wishing you a… Wonderful Holiday Season **************************************************** Meanwhile, Mr. Market… …seems not to be in the holiday spirit this year. Unless it is ghosts of corrections past. From a high of ~2941, the S&P 500 is down 474 points (as I write) for a 16% decline. Solidly in… [Continue Reading]
Archives for 2018
Truly Passive Real Estate Investing
The house pictured above is in Montgomery, Alabama. I have never seen this house in real life. I have never been to Montgomery, although I am sure it is lovely. The odds are good that you, too, have never been to Montgomery and have also never seen this house. Even if you have been to… [Continue Reading]
Car Talk: An update on Steve and looking at Leafs
On this Thanksgiving Day one of the things I am grateful for is our trusty 2007 Forester, Steve. I last wrote about Steve a couple of years back, and in that post I tell the story of his awkward name. At the end I invited you to tell me about your rides and your cool… [Continue Reading]
Chautauqua 2018 Greece: A week for the gods!
“No one in my day-to-day life understands this FI path. At Chautauqua, everybody gets it. I have found my tribe.” Way back in 2012 I headed to Ecuador to create the very first Chautauqua held in the fall of 2013. The basic concept then, as now, was… Travel to a cool place Hang out in… [Continue Reading]
On Twitter, gone for Chautauqua and dark on comments till November
Yeah. I’m amazed, too… JL Collins NH on Twitter Newbie that I am, I am not entirely sure how I’ll be using it. Mostly likely letting my followers in on random things I think are cool and my comments on issues that don’t require a full blog post. My first two were sending out this… [Continue Reading]
What we own and why we own it: 2018
So as not to keep you in suspense… 76% = VTSAX 23% = VBTLX The Total Bond Market Index Fund. 1% = Cash in VMMXX. A checking account at our local bank for ready cash and paying bills. Back in the day… Way back in June, 2011 I launched this blog. That month I put up 16 posts. Imagine…. [Continue Reading]
Tuft & Needle: Our Walnut Frame and Mint Mattress
As promised in my last Kibanda post, this is my review of the Walnut Frame and Mint Mattress we ordered a few weeks back. As you will recall from that post, we didn’t move our beds or mattresses to Kibanda last year, opting to save the moving cost and instead order new ones. The clear… [Continue Reading]
Kibanda Part 5: Pretty, and pretty much done
Kibanda plaque by Lysh @ Rustic Ludlow This post has been on the back burner for months now. My apologies to those of you who have been asking for a Kibanda update. Your patience is rewarded. For those of you who wonder why these damn Kibanda posts even appear on what is (mostly) a financial/investing… [Continue Reading]
Stocks–Part XXXIV: How to unload your unwanted stocks and funds
If you have come here, read thru the Stock Series and decided the simple low-cost approach described makes sense, you are now faced with the problem of how do you get from where you are to where you want to be. That is, what do you do with all the investments you already have? How, exactly, do… [Continue Reading]
Review: Empower Retirement Planner
Empower If you have come here, read through the Stock Series and decided the simple low-cost approach described makes sense, you are now faced with the problem of how do you get from where you are to where you want to be. That is, what do you do with all the investments you already have?… [Continue Reading]
