Mr. Money Mustache

It has been a while since we ran an MMM challenge here at Mr. Money Mustache. The last one, where I instructed you to start getting your groceries with a bike trailer, was way back on October 20th. And even that one was a bit of a cheat for me, since I didn’t have to [...]

In a recent article, I shared my enthusiasm for some of the confidence and hacking-the-system approaches covered in the Tim Ferris book. In the reader comments that followed, there was lots of agreement but also some Tim-bashing, suggesting that he advocates taking unethical shortcuts and shunning real work. They had a good point, and it [...]

There’s a thoughtful debate going on right now over in the Money Mustache Forum, where people are comparing different strategies for investing in rental houses. Some people prefer to save up the full purchase price of a house before plunging in and making the move. Others will make the buy using a mortgage but then [...]

The other week while enjoying a day of catching giant fish on Lake Tahoe, I got another interesting question from a reader. I think this one is worth answering online, because the situation probably sounds familiar to many people. Hey MMM, I have a situation that only your level of badassery can cut through. Let’s get [...]

“Who is this Tim Ferriss guy?” If find yourself asking that question, then congratulations, you get five extra Mustache Points for not tuning into US mainstream media for the last several years. In fact, I myself was blissfully unaware of his existence until I started this blog last year and noticed everyone either worshiping or criticizing him. [...]

What’s your style of investing: Stocks, or Bonds? And if you say “Stocks”, are you fond of Small Cap or Large Cap, and would those be in the categories of Value or Growth, and in US, European, Asian, or Emerging Markets? I’ve learned that readers of Mr. Money Mustache vary widely in their response to [...]

HVUXHJGMMJ5U Oh hi there. It seems you have snuck onto the blog right as I was doing some minor maintenance. The code above is a “technorati claim code”, which is something I need to put into the MMM RSS feed so that the obscure “technorati” service will recognize this blog as belonging to me. Why [...]

Mrs. M and I recently learned that this is the week that the department stores like us to celebrate “Valentine’s Day”. I approve of this special day, because hey, love and romance are good things. So are little paper hearts that you and your kids create and draw pictures on. But as usual, there are [...]

Hey! What’s that new link on the menu above? FORUM?? YEAH! The Mr. Money Mustache blog now has its very own FORUM!! Technical Wizard Mrs. Money Mustache has set it up, and I have pre-configured it with a variety of exciting topics that should spark discussion. Check it out at http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/forum/ As with most online forums, [...]

Well, the Safety Pirates have finished their raiding of the Reno/Lake Tahoe area, and returned home to their lives of responsibility. As expected, the trip has furthered my education in several dimensions of Mustachianism and led to some insights. And the title of Brave New Life’s guest posting on Thursday nicely describes one of these [...]

Today I have the rare opportunity to share a guest posting from my Southern Colorado friend who runs the Brave New Life blog. Brave, as I like to refer to him, is a family man with two children. And he is about 477 days away from beginning his own early retirement. His blog offers wise [...]

It looks like we’ve just passed the ten month anniversary of this blog and are creeping up towards one year.  Just like with having a child, in some ways it went by quickly and in other ways it seems like this baby has been around forever.  The best part is the community that has been [...]

Today’s guest post is brought to you by Nords of The-Military-Guide.com. This is a great blog about leveraging  both the training in Badassity and the career perks offered by the US military to earn yourself  some very early financial independence. Some of you may already know him from Early-Retirement.org or his guest post at EarlyRetirementExtreme.com. [...]

Looks like the Fortress of the Mustache has been penetrated again! A spam script somehow hacked into the WordPress system that runs this blog, and sprinkled random evil links for pharmaceutical junk around – one in each article. They are quite obvious, but be sure not to click on them, or you’ll end up sending [...]

Once every year, a magical time comes where a bunch of grown men get to act like teenagers again for a week. It’s called the Safety Pirates Snowboarding trip, and it involves a binge of out-of-bounds powder seeking, groomer speed competitions, moderate substance abuse, and late nights on the town or in the resort hot-tubs. [...]

“The problem with Mr. Money Mustache”, some people say, “is that he has led this blessed and privileged life where nothing ever went wrong for him! He never makes any mistakes, and that’s just not the case for most people.” I can see why you might think that, since I tend to write to you [...]