Category: Monday Night Finance

The Four Backstops to the Four Percent Rule One of the recent additions to CountAbout was the FIRE widget. The FIRE widget uses your net worth to predict your income…

5 Ways to Keep Inflation from Destroying Your Finances Even if you haven’t consumed any news in the past month, it’s hard not to realize we are going through a…

Sweet, Sweet, Debt Debt is usually a dirty word in personal finance. (It’s definitely a four-letter word no matter how you mutter it.) Any finance website will have numerous articles…

Playing Financial Sabermetrics Is A Perilous Game Are you familiar with the concept of sabermetrics? The word grew from Society for American Baseball Research- SABR or “saber”. This society collects…

The Only Year-End Financial Checklist You’ll Need to Come Out On Top in 2022 Happy New Year! New Year celebrations are a time for reflection and introspection about how the…

What Is Financial Independence? A 9-Step Guide to Financial Freedom- Wallet Hacks Perhaps you have heard of the FIRE movement. I’m sure you’ve seen a headline shouting about a 30…

Does Inflation Matter If You’re Frugal- GovernmentWorkerFI If you’ve watched the news this past month, you’ve probably seen some headlines about inflation. Prices are skyrocketing. Over the past year, the…

15 Mint Alternatives for 2021 Have you been a long time user of Mint to track your spending and net worth? Perhaps you are frustrated with the user experience and…

Turning Our Primary Residence Into A Rental Property There are as many ways to earn money with real estate as there are houses and land parcels in the United States.…