Mr. Money Mustache

Since the last update in this series, there has been a certain amount of drama on our latest road to Real Estate Riches. There’s always drama when you buy a house, because relatively large sums of money are involved, and the sale involves a large number of people working together. A buyer and seller, real [...]

I just had one of my stranger birthday experiences when I turned 37 earlier this week. Things got off to an early start, when the doorbell rang at 12:01 AM, just as I was considering putting down my book and going to sleep. When your doorbell rings at that time of night, you answer it [...]

I’ve got a little secret for you. Between the frosty North Pole of Unemployment, where your bank account dwindles and your debts multiply while you sit at home and fidget nervously, and the Sweltering Jungle of Full Time Employment, where you wield a Firehose of cash but have absolutely no free time to do anything [...]

In writing this blog for you, Mr. Money Mustache actually has three major goals:     To make you rich so you can retire early. To make you happy so you can properly enjoy your early retirement. To save the whole Human Race from destroying its own home through environmental destruction. All three of these [...]

I’ve got a big money-saving tip for you that will be completely obvious for long-time readers, yet is still completely necessary for me to review because there are new readers here every day who don’t have time to go back to the old Bicycle post.. and looking around on the city streets, I can see [...]

Hello Mustachians,  I’ve amassed quite a nice ‘Stash of guest postings from thoughtful writers around the internet, and I thought this one would be perfect for today, since my own most recent article was about The Safety Margins I have myself to prevent any sort of money problems in the future. This submission comes from [...]

Being the bossiest personal finance role model on the Internet, Mr. Money Mustache receives quite a few challenges on the accuracy of his math and assumptions. It is with a palatable sense of glee that some people hold up a perceived inaccuracy in my calculations, and deduce that therefore my entire status as Mr. Money [...]

Mr. Money Mustache is learning that with Blogging Fame comes People Willing To Do Excellent Free Work For You.  As it turns out, a couple of dudes who happen to be readers here also have their own blog at www.WeWearKhakis.com.  I enjoy the writing style over there, and this post on giving the shaft to ridiculous [...]

Eliminating Lady Temptations: Step 4 (see other steps) by Mrs. Money Mustache This past weekend, MMM brought a big box up to our bedroom.  It contained clothing we had packed away into boxes way back in June, just before our trip to Canada, as we rented our house this past summer and wanted to clear [...]

Alternate titles: Better Parenting with Hot Glue Raising Children Actually Costs Less than Zero One of the big inspirations for my recent article on Complainypants Disease was the comments section of a mainstream newspaper article about some semi-early retirees that was recently forwarded to me by a few readers. Don’t waste your time reading through more than [...]

While we were all sitting around anticipating the upcoming closing on the bank-owned house down the street, a comment came in on that first article in the series. A guy named Joe told us this:   “This house is cash flow negative with 100% financing (and the many issues you are ignoring like maintenance/repairs, vacancy, [...]

When I read an article about an olympic athlete who can swim further and faster than I can even run, I don’t immediately find his blog and write a complaint that he is training too hard and failed to take into account time for commuting, chronic illnesses, or TV watching in his lifestyle. When I [...]

 It was a beautiful evening in my neighborhood, and I was enjoying one of my giant homebrews on a deck chair I had placed in the middle of the street, as part of a nearby block’s Annual Street Party. I was talking to a couple I had just met, and the topic turned to the [...]

Man, there’s never a dull moment being Mr. Money Mustache. Late the other night, I was relaxing in my home office and fiddling about with the computer, and Ding, up popped an email from this blog’s Contact Submission Form: Name: FatMoneyPig Comments: Hi, I have a personal finance blog, you have a personal finance blog. [...]

You and I are about to embark upon an adventure together over the next few months! Have you ever wondered what is involved in buying a bank-owned home at a massive discount, renovating it back into nice condition, and then selling or renting it out at a highly profitable rate? Well, a friend and I [...]

A few weeks ago, I got a really interesting email from a guy in Norway that said something like, “Hey Mr. MM.. What you are preaching is Pure Stoicism, with a great twist and perception on today’s world … I love it!!” * “Stoicism?” I asked, “You mean like the Stoics in Shakespearean plays that show no [...]