2011 Mid-Year Review: Personal Finance Goals was written on July 15, 2011. I’m revisiting the post on April 6, 2021, almost 10 years later. It’s been great to update old articles during the pandemic and clea things up. We all need good personal finances. It’s easy to lose discipline as the year goes on, just […]
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2011 Mid-Year Review: Online Endeavors And Building A Community was originally written on July 13, 2011, nine months before I decided to negotiate a severance, retire early, and be free. I’m revisiting this post 10 years later to see how far I’ve come. Half the year is done and it has neither felt too fast
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What’s the perfect amount of vacation time? You want to be away long enough to fully relax and enjoy yourself. And you also don’t want to be gone so long that you get bored. A lot of people are itching to go on vacation now that the pandemic is long over. The pandemic has been
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Regret is the worst. Don’t let life pass you by with regrets. Regret is why I have a motto: Never fail due to a lack of effort because effort requires no skill. Despite perpetual failure, I have continued to put myself out there. As a result, at least Financial Samurai has turned out to be
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Credit card rights are important. Sometimes, issues happen with your credit card and you need to know your credit card rights to solve a problem. I’ve had my home rebate credit card for 7 years. It’s my one and only personal credit card I use for everything. Once a year, a rebate of 1% of total
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Now that Osama Bin Laden is dead, I hope the tens of thousands of Muslims who died at his hands and the families of the 3,000 people lost in the Twin Towers find closure. After 10 long years of searching, we finally got the bastard who was hiding just 90 miles away from Islamabad, Pakistan. Bye-bye
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On Friday afternoon, March 11th, the largest earthquake in Japan’s history hit with a magnitude of 8.9. The devastation of the tsunami is unbelievable and my heart goes out to the victims and family members of this tragedy, which is still ongoing. This post discusses how to help Japan. After all, this is Financial Samurai.
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Although I’m much poorer recently, I’m also much richer too. Over the last several days I’ve spent a lot of money. First, I splurged on a 50 minute massage for $67 dollars that came from $260 in poker winnings the other night. Does the $67 dollars count as “real money” since I didn’t have the
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When it comes to business, are women naturally more trustworthy than men? I think women have an edge when it comes to making deals. A friend of mine has a vacation property up in Lake Tahoe and he says he let’s his wife do all the marketing, negotiating, and selling. Peter marketed their place for
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Are you wondering: should I have closed my credit cards? By closing your credit cards, you may negatively affect your credit score. Let’s discuss more in this post I wrote after I closed my credit cards. I did some spring cleaning the other day and found two credit cards in my drawer which I totally
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