Tagged: lifestyle inflation

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Is The Deck Stacked Against Us?

Regular readers know I focus on the behavioral aspects that affect personal finance a lot. On a bike ride recently a thought struck me.  It might just be harder than ever in 2019 to maintain good behaviors in life that...

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The State Of Housing In America

The Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies has released its 2019 report into the State of the Nation’s Housing.  The report includes four awesome interactive maps illustrating key findings from the study.  Since I’m a data nerd I dug...

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Are You Wealthy, Successful, And Miserable?

Every once in a while I read an article that touches on so many points relevant to financial independence that it must be shared. Charles Duhigg’s recent article in New York Times magazine titled “Wealthy, Successful, and Miserable” is one...

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Never Underestimate Your Ability To Adapt

One of the core tenants of the financial independence movement is to avoid lifestyle inflation.  Investopedia defines lifestyle inflation as “increasing one’s spending when income goes up”.  I don’t think that’s the best definition since many people increase their spending even when...

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Money Lessons From Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Day will be celebrated this coming Monday in America.  It’s a federal government holiday, so I’ll be off.  As a semi-retired and semi-quasi-professional blogger and graphic artist, I wasn’t planning on working anyway. Sadly, many companies in...

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Have We Reached Peak Home Bloat?

I was over my buddy Nathan’s house years ago, a massive modern “McMansion style” house in the suburbs of Baltimore.  He and his wife Cindy had bought it the previous fall, and this was their first summer in the house. ...